There is a reason you have not come across a unicorn fossil in a museum exhibit, let alone seen one in a zoo or heard an iconic grandfatherly voice detail their daily trepidations in a BBC documentary. The reason being—spoiler ...
Balding is really common, affecting more than 50% of men. It's also physically inconsequential (bald men live just as long as haired men). So why, in his memoir Spare, does Prince Harry refer to his brother's baldness as ...
Social Sciences
Feb 27, 2023
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One of the most hotly debated questions in the history of Neanderthal research has been whether they created art. In the past few years, the consensus has become that they did, sometimes. But, like their relations at either ...
Archaeology
Jan 17, 2023
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In 2022, OpenAI—one of the world's leading artificial intelligence research laboratories—released the text generator ChatGPT and the image generator DALL-E 2. While both programs represent monumental leaps in natural ...
Social Sciences
Jan 13, 2023
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A masterpiece of ancient Egyptian art found in a palace is so finely detailed that researchers have been able to pinpoint the bird species it depicts. These images of the natural world likely created a space for relaxation ...
Archaeology
Dec 27, 2022
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Forgeries are a lucrative global market created by artists so skilled in both their craft and their duplicity that they sometimes fool even the experts.
Analytical Chemistry
Dec 6, 2022
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Some people have strong reactions to art and music, others hardly any. In 2020, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics (MPIEA) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, developed a method that scientists can ...
Social Sciences
Nov 22, 2022
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Arts education offers powerful ways to explore ethical responsibility, values, and attitudes of global citizenship by means of interdisciplinary, intersubjective and embodied participation and experience, according to the ...
Social Sciences
Nov 10, 2022
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Most newer sports are hybrids of older ones, and pickleball is no exception. The progeny of tennis, badminton and pingpong, pickleball is played by singles or doubles teams who hit a ball back and forth over a 3-foot-high ...
Social Sciences
Nov 7, 2022
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In the last few weeks climate change activists have perpetrated various acts of reversible vandalism against famous works of art in public galleries.
Environment
Nov 4, 2022
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