To live together in social communities, people create and maintain expectations about what is normal and what is not. Sometimes things can fall outside the range of normal and people are OK with it. You might have a neighbor who likes to wear Revolutionary War-era costumes on their evening walks around the neighborhood. Their behavior seems...
Are twins allergic to the same things?
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Tiny cut marks on animal bone fossils reveal that human ancestors were in Romania 1.95 million years ago
Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil’s surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran[1], took a deep breath. Illuminated by a strong light positioned nearly parallel to the surface of the bone, the V-shaped lines were clearly there on the fossil. There was no mistaking what they meant.
She’d seen them before, on bones that were...
AI-generated images can exploit how your mind works − here’s why they fool you and how to spot them

I’m more of a scroller than a poster on social media. Like many people, I wind down at the end of the day with a scroll binge, taking in videos of Italian grandmothers making pasta or baby pygmy hippos frolicking.
For a while, my feed was filled with immaculately designed tiny homes, fueling my desire for minimalist paradise. Then, I...