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Music of Sleep and Dreams

Sleep and music share a strange, elusive magic—both shape our...

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The Shape of Knots: From DNA to Shoestrings and Solar Flares

Knots are ubiquitous in the world around us, appearing as...

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Pluto Isn’t a Planet

In 2006, the International Astronomical Union adopted a definition of...

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The White Knight: Ice

The polar regions are still some of the most inaccessible...

A large, textured tabular iceberg floats in blue water, with smaller ice fragments nearby

Should We Manipulate People’s Emotions?

We think of emotions as being central to our characters...

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Happily Ever After? Singing and Dancing Cinderella

Why has the Cinderella story given rise to so many...

A glass slipper on a red cushion, a pumpkin, a clock, pearls, a lace glove, and two mice in a dark, whimsical setting

The Sky at Night, Tonight: A New View of the Changing Sky

On a remote mountain top in Chile, scanning the sky...

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory illuminated at night under a sky filled with the Milky Way galaxy

The Shape of Tiles: Regular and Irregular, Hard and Soft

Tiling involves filling a plane or space with repeated elements...

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Why Do We Love?

Untold millions of words have been written about love. It...

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A Living Planet

Earth is a living planet. But how much life is...

Several small, light-colored bonnet mushrooms with bell-shaped caps and thin stems growing among green foliage and brown debris on a forest floor