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The recent popularity of the podcast Telepathy Tapes highlights the concept of telepathy, the extra-sensory communication between people through thoughts. Nonverbal people with autism “possess gifts that defy conventional understanding,”…

Craving a glass of wine with your dinner? The dietary habits of our ape ancestors may be to…

There are more than a hundred ways to prepare a potato, and thousands of stories have begun with a shot of vodka distilled from this tuber. For centuries, the potato has been instrumental in feeding the world’s growing population. According to…

More than 13 million people worldwide owe their lives to in vitro fertilization (IVF), according to the first estimates of their kind.

Since the original ‘test tube’ baby was born in 1978, the number of children brought into the world by IVF…

The Shroud of Turin is shrouded in mystery. Viewed as a holy relic for centuries, this artifact is not what it looks like, according to yet another study.

The old linen cloth and its faint spectral image of a man, which resembles traditional…

The “superpowers” of hibernating animals are also present in human DNA, according to a…

Marine animals living in the cold, dark depths of the ocean are interconnected across the…

Venting when angry seems sensible. Conventional wisdom suggests expressing anger can help us quell it, like releasing steam from a pressure cooker.

But this common metaphor is misleading, according to a meta-analytic review from 2024….

A first-of-its-kind study estimates that lightning strikes kill 320 million trees every year.

For perspective, these dead trees account for up to 2.9 percent of annual loss in plant biomass and emit up to 1.09 billion tons of carbon…