Mindfulness meditation can make some Americans more selfish and less generous
Take the word “namaste.” In modern Hindi, it’s simply a respectful greeting, the equivalent of a formal “hello” appropriate for...
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I studied people who think leisure is a waste of time – here’s what I found
We found that those who viewed leisure as wasteful tended to get less enjoyment out of all of the different...
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Vaccines could affect how the coronavirus evolves – but that’s no reason to skip your shot
Takeaways A 2015 paper on a chicken virus showed vaccines could enable more deadly variants to spread – in chickens....
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Why students learn better when they move their bodies – instead of sitting still at their desks
Research from embodied cognition – the study of the body’s role in thinking – shows that the body must first...
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How a vial of Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine travels from a lab in Missouri to an arm in Bangladesh
By Ravi Anupindi (Professor of Technology and Operations, University of Michigan) Inoculating the planet from COVID-19 presents an unprecedented logistical...
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10 years after ‘The Martian’—and 10 years before the future it imagined—a planetary scientist reflects on how far real Mars exploration has come
By Ari Koeppel Andy Weir’s bestselling story “The Martian” predicts that by 2035 NASA will have landed humans on Mars...
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