What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep
Fruit flies, octopuses, birds, and humans don’t seem to have much in common. Some live on land, others are aquatic.
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Antibiotics overused in coronavirus patients hospitalized early on in pandemic: study
The majority of patients hospitalized with COVID-19 at the start of the pandemic were overprescribed antibiotics, suggests the findings of
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Mathematicians Settle the Erdős Coloring Conjecture
In the fall of 1972, Vance Faber was a new professor at the University of Colorado. When two influential mathematicians,
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Big days from Wilson, Metcalf lead Seahawks past 49ers 37-27
Russell Wilson threw four more touchdown passes, two to DK Metcalf, and the Seattle Seahawks rebounded from their first loss
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7 useful tools for a quick and easy digital spring cleaning
After a year mostly spent at home channeling Marie Kondo, I bet you’re like me, and every drawer, closet, and
Pausing the J&J Vaccine Was Easy. Unpausing Will Be Hard
The public health world was ready for something like this. They just didn’t know what the something would be. “When
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Respawn’s ‘Apex Legends’ Is Just Getting Started
The minds at Respawn Entertainment are wizards when it comes to the action-adventure genre. Twenty-fourteen’s Titanfall and its criminally underrated
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The Humble Shrub That’s Predicting a Terrible Fire Season
“I think the forest fire risk this year is going to be about as high as it can be,” Swain
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Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin launches NS-15 in preparation for future manned missions
Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has conducted its fifteenth successful suborbital test flight of the aerospace company’s New Shepard rocket. New Shepard is
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Help! Am I Oversharing With My Colleagues?
Dear OOO, I’m the boss at a midsize workplace and I love my colleagues. I worry, though, that I tell
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Choices Was the Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Escape I Needed
In the mobile game, I could be anyone I wanted—and my decisions reflected the bolder, braver person I aspired to
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Will Future Electric Vehicles Be Powered by Deep-Sea Metals?
Both expeditions will collect baseline environmental data on the kinds of marine organisms that live on the seafloor, the composition
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Coinbase Makes Its Debut—and Bitcoin Arrives on Wall Street
Physicists are constantly rethinking how bubbles burst. It’s one of those nagging problems in physics, deceptively simple, like working out
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5 New Family-Friendly Movies and 1 Actually Good One
This year’s Oscar-nominated animated films have a uniformly safe, childish approach to death. But The Willoughbys—not nominated—will mess you up.
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