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Under fire Phoebe Gates once belonged to a secretive, invitation-only Stanford class called “So You Think You Can Rule the World?” where students are “taught how to identify vulnerabilities in systems…
Over the last few decades, the number of people going online for their healthcare needs has skyrocketed. Google receives hundreds of millions of health related search queries daily. Half of…
If you’ve ever been jolted awake by your cat letting out a long, mournful cry in the middle of the night, your sleep-deprived brain may wonder why, exactly, your cute…
BERLIN — Archaeologists have finally determined which weapon caused mysterious square holes in the skulls of soldiers who died in the 1361 Battle of Visby. Close analysis of the bone…
People with a rare disorder that causes excessive burping may benefit from an unlikely treatment: singing therapy.A new study suggests that this singing approach could offer a more engaging alternative…
BERLIN — A Roman-era mass grave discovered underneath a soccer field near Vienna holds the skeletons of young men from all over the Roman Empire. And many of them suffered…
Brazil is home to some of the world’s largest aquifers, yet many of those groundwater stores — which provide 55% of the country’s water — have shrunk so much over…
Losing mature trees from a neighborhood may be a matter of life and death, a new study suggests.The research, published Aug. 5 in the journal GeoHealth, tracked tree canopy cover…
Long-term memories may not “stick” in the brain for the reasons we thought, a study of mice in artificial hibernation reveals.Instead of relying on many individual, strong links between neurons…
McDonald’s compiled a 515-page dossier on one of its loyalty-program customers — using years of fast-food purchases to predict how often he would return, how much he would spend and…