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Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions. Sometimes the daily rigmarole of life gives us ...

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Dreams of flying? Nightmares of teeth falling out? Falling off a cliff? As a sleep scientist at the University of Montreal, Michelle Carr has... A sleep scientist on why we have nightmares Dreams of ...

Dreams of flying? Nightmares of teeth falling out? Falling off a cliff? As a sleep scientist at the University of Montreal, Michelle Carr has pretty much heard it all. She even says the content of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The longest government shutdown in history has come to an end, with almost no one happy with the final result. Democrats didn’t get the health insurance provisions they demanded ...

Wishing for an extra hour in the day is a common refrain throughout the industrialized world. And every fall, in places where the clocks fall back an hour, that wish reaches fruition. Yet many people ...

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