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The town is Roseto, in eastern Pennsylvania, settled at the end of the nineteenth century by immigrants from a single village in southern Italy.
Tylosaurus stretched past 13 metres in the Late Cretaceous seas, longer than two great white sharks nose to tail, with backward-pointing palatal teeth that turned its throat into a one-way ratchet. A newly named species from Texas, Tylosaurus rex, pushes the genus to its upper limit.
Falling asleep to the television isn't laziness — it's a self-soothing strategy with deep roots. But new research on broadband background noise suggests the cost is showing up in the parts of sleep you can't feel directly.
The screen-down phone reads as a small act of etiquette, but the psychology underneath it is rarely about the other person. It's a self-management gesture — a quiet compromise between an adult and a device they already know they can't fully trust themselves with.
Across France, Spain, Germany and Poland this week, control room operators are watching two graphs at once: the air temperature outside, and the temperature of the river water flowing past their nuclear plants.
A Silicon Canals Mind piece on the behavioural lessons many people practised in the 1960s and 1970s, from waiting and repair to attention, privacy, and local obligation.
On August 15, 1977, Ohio State's Big Ear radio telescope recorded a 72-second narrow-band signal from Sagittarius that was 30 times louder than background noise — sitting almost exactly on the hydrogen line where SETI researchers had been listening since 1959. Jerry Ehman circled it in red ballpoint days later. It has never been heard again.
The Netherlands has dispatched its trade minister to Washington in an unusual lobbying push against US legislation that would sharply tighten semiconductor export controls on China.
Acevedo, Aron, Fisher, and Brown's fMRI study suggests that, for some long-term couples, romantic reward can persist alongside attachment and lower obsession.
A 50-year personality study by Damian, Spengler, Sutu, and Roberts suggests that many people show measurable maturation from adolescence into later adulthood.
A large founder-age study from Azoulay, Jones, Kim, and Miranda complicates the young-founder myth by linking high-growth outcomes with middle-aged founders and prior industry experience.
Consider two people at the end of a difficult meeting.
