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Roseto's mid-century mortality pattern became a famous social-cohesion story, but the evidence was observational and the interpretation was disputed from the beginning.
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.
Television is a common sleep aid, but research does not show that the habit reveals a particular childhood history or means the nervous system reads silence as danger.
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.
Consider two people at the end of a difficult meeting.
Blue-space research suggests that water settings may support mood and attention, but the evidence is best read carefully rather than as a universal cure.
There is a version of the "Artificial" story that is an ordinary Hollywood development story.
