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Are You a Lucid Dreamer? Jul 24, 2023

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A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head.

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Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History Jul 21, 2023

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Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.

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How Stress Messes With Your Gut Jul 19, 2023

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Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress

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Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities? Jul 17, 2023

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Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work.

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What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain Jul 14, 2023

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Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.

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Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice Jul 10, 2023

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New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health.

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Doctor AI Will See You Now Jul 07, 2023

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ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they?

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El Niño is Back. What Does That Mean For You? Jul 05, 2023

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The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.

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The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored] Jun 29, 2023

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John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation.
This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.

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The Universe Is Abuzz with Giant Gravitational Waves, and Scientists Just Heard Them (Maybe) Jun 28, 2023

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Researchers, using the galaxy as a detector, believe they have detected gravitational waves from monster black holes for the first time.

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