These tiny pieces of art include “PAC-MOF," which may look familiar to retro video game fans.

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From Stone Age axes to internet memes, humans have the most complex cultures on Earth. Scientists have long thought culture helped drive our survival and reproduction. Now some scientists say that culture has actually overtaken genetics as the leading force shaping human evolution. bit.ly/3K8Goth

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Malta’s lost civilization only lasted 1,500 years but it produced some of the oldest buildings still standing today. New evidence suggests their society collapsed within two generations due to a combination of deforestation, soil erosion, and social upheaval. 🧪 nautil.us/why-a-thrivi...

Disgust may not derive from a simple aversion to harmful substances but from a tension between the desire to explore and consume new things and the dangers of doing so. 🧪

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Watch Dr. Tim Johnson read 'The Great Forgetting' by paleoclimatologist Summer Praetorius and find out why Earth is losing its memory.

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Why did Charles Darwin call orchids an "abominable mystery"?

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Can cryogenically freezing coral stop time long enough to save them?

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