science

New Study Reveals Our Brains Use Standard Code To Process Emotions

While computer-like elements of our noggins abound, the idea that our most "illogical bits" are organized the same way makes us seem like cyborgs.

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Watch: “The Cosmos” Guide to Weather vs. Climate

Climate-change deniers often conflate weather with climate—watch Neil Degrasse Tyson explain the difference.

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New Electronic Tongue to Ruin Lives, Happiness, Humanity

Researchers in Barcelona have developed an electronic tongue that can distinguish between beer types with 82% accuracy.

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Brave New World: The Dawn of the Anti-Love Drug

Altering human memories feels like the stuff of science fiction and raises serious questions about an increasingly delicate system of ethics.

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Daily FYI: Possums Could Be a Cure-all For Poison!

The much-maligned possom just might have the anti-venom-of-a-lifetime for us weakling humans.

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Daily FYI: There's a Jellyfish that's Immortal!

Could these jellyfish be the key to us living forever?

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Watch: Can you Apply the Benjamin Franklin Effect to Love?

SoulPancake has conducted a social experiment to examine kindness in relationships. What it found is both surprising and sweet.

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Keep that Smartphone Away from Your Brain (and Other Useful Body Parts)

If there’s even a chance that smartphones are connected to cancer why the fuck do we keep using them?

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