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Ayurveda's vamkukshi advises resting on the left side after meals. Modern reflux studies back the left-side habit, but the heart and lymph claims don't hold up.
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Dutch psychologist Merel Kindt found that propranolol, given after a fear memory is reactivated, can blunt the anxiety attached to it — a possible future
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From the TI archives: a parent's 2014 shortlist of magazines, toys, science kits, and free learning sites to keep kids aged 5–12 curious — most of them
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In December 2012, researchers proposed that epigenetic 'epi-marks' explain homosexuality, offering a new answer to an old evolutionary puzzle.
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Brittany Wenger, 17, won the 2012 Google Science Fair with a neural network that detects breast cancer malignancy with 99% accuracy.
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Blind-tasting research says the price tag changes how wine tastes more than the wine does: what the studies on expensive vs cheap wine actually found.
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A proposal to barcode every human at birth resurfaced in the early 2010s. Privacy, religious, and pragmatic objections killed it — but the anxieties behind
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Naperville students brought science experiments to the Late Show with David Letterman in 2012 — a small win for the idea that the lab can be a path to prime
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In 2011, an 11-year-old Brazilian boy made spoons stick to his chest. Fun to watch — but science says the trick is sticky skin, not superpowers.
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People with more moles show fewer signs of skin ageing — and a 2007 King's College study found longer telomeres behind it.
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Given a choice between cocaine and food, female rats choose the drug while males go for food. Estrogen, the UCSB researchers believe, is the difference.
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The Dance Your PhD competition asks researchers to explain their dissertations through interpretive dance — and it works better than it sounds.
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