It’s these brain cells that really make humans unique.
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Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Vanderbilt University
We have more neurons in our cortices than any other species, courtesy of an early technology – and along with them came our long, slow lives, with plenty of chances to gather around the dinner table.
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Kevin O'Neal Cokley, University of Texas at Austin
Should all-white juries be permitted in death penalty cases involving black defendants?
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Pik-Mai Hui, Indiana University; Christopher Torres-Lugo, Indiana University
Members of the research team that wrote the software that unmasked thousands of Twitter bots explain the next phase of their work: getting the public involved in the fight against disinformation.
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Lee McIntyre, Boston University
President Donald Trump and his supporters exhibit the methods of science deniers. Like anti-evolutionists and flat-earthers, they reject what they don't want to believe and accept what they favor.
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Science + Technology
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Kristina Lerman, University of Southern California
Does it seem like your friends have better lives than you do? Mathematics, in the form of the "majority illusion," can help explain why.
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Antonis Rokas, Vanderbilt University
Bread. Yeast. Wine. Cheese. All these delicious foods are courtesy of various forms of domesticated fungi. So how, exactly, did humans tame wild fungi into the cooperative species that make our food?
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Health + Medicine
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Allison Kurti, University of Vermont
Vaping continues to be in the news, with the CDC recently linking vitamin E acetate to the deaths and illnesses caused by vaping. But just what is vaping? And is it different from e-cigarettes?
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Neeraj Sood, University of Southern California
Would you buy a pair of shoes without knowing the price? Consumers have bought medical care from hospitals for years without knowing the costs. A new law passed Nov. 15 changes that.
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Matt Bertone, North Carolina State University
This Speed Read makes the case why you should be nice to spiders you encounter in your home and consider a live-and-let-live policy.
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Andreas Kern, Georgetown University
The Fed cut rates for the third time in as many months – something practically unheard of in a strong economy.
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Erik C. Nisbet, The Ohio State University; Olga Kamenchuk, The Ohio State University
Trump's attempt to co-opt Ukraine's precarious position with Russia worsens existing divides inside Ukraine and weakens US influence abroad.
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Trey Malone
Michigan State University
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