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Carlyn Zwarenstein

Carlyn Zwarenstein

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Is color even real? The true nature of the rainbow is deeper than it seems

White light can be blinding, cold, unforgiving. Our physical reality often finds it too much as well, splitting it apart any chance it gets. Plants...

16.11.2024 10

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Health care workers in Gaza ask why the international community ignores their suffering

Just over a year ago, after a massive explosion in the parking area of Al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza killed 471 people and wounded hundreds more,...

11.11.2024 10

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UN report accuses Israel of willfully destroying Gaza’s health care infrastructure

Six days after the Hamas-led massacre in southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, Israel ordered the evacuation of 22 hospitals in northern Gaza. In fact, 1.1...

30.10.2024 10

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Nature keeps evolving crabs and the internet is obsessed. What’s going on here?

As XEC, the latest COVID variant takes hold, we are watching viral evolution play out on a time scale short enough to follow, with different strains...

14.10.2024 10

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All eyes on XEC: Why COVID sleuths are paying attention to this variant

Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. A new variant of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, suddenly breaks out like a horse from the...

09.10.2024 10

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From dinosaurs to dolphins, what gaze following reveals about the evolution of empathy

Picture this: You’re at a bar and someone clearly intoxicated starts telling your friend their grand theory about how the Titan submersible...

14.09.2024 30

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Numbers game: Is math the language of nature or just a human construct?

Nearly twenty years after I graduated high school and my last calculus class, I still get that nightmare where I’m at the exam for a calculus course...

27.07.2024 40

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How naturally-produced opioids help plumb the depths of animal minds

Amidst the ongoing debate over whether artificial intelligence is really sentient, scientists are still trying to figure out the same thing about...

14.07.2024 20

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Shortly after the Big Bang, conditions were perfect for life. Did aliens emerge long before us?

It’s a little mind-boggling to think about, but there was a time when no stars existed in the universe. The earliest stars, galaxies and black holes...

15.06.2024 6

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Why warzones are the perfect place for antibiotic resistance and what that means for Palestine

The word “gauze” may have originated from the Palestinian territory Gaza, but even that wound care staple is running out in the besieged region....

09.03.2024 8

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If the multiverse theory is real, how soon can I ditch this sucky timeline?

I can’t be the only one here displeased by our current timeline. It’s pretty hard to experience endless COVID, debates about whether it’s...

30.01.2024 10

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What a gorilla named Lia taught scientists about human facial expressions

There’s a lot we don’t know about gorillas. This is due to the lack of legal dead gorillas to dissect. And that means many details of our shared...

05.01.2024 10

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