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Stanford Professor Rebecca Silverman discusses a transformative movement backed by research that is changing literacy ...

More than a century ago, Pavlov trained his dog to associate the sound of a bell with food. Ever since, scientists have assumed the dog learned this through repetition. The more times the dog heard ...

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As snow powers the Winter Olympics, you probably underestimate the simple snowflake. For starters, snow isn't technically white.

Scientists and medical experts are countering climate denialism, vaccine scepticism and wellness pseudoscience on social ...