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On a snowy February morning, Toby Rodgers strapped on a pair of snowshoes and trudged across a snowy field in Washington’s Cascade mountains. Rodgers, a hydrologist for the U.S. Department of ...

New research published in the journal i-Perception suggests that the way striped clothing affects body shape perception ...

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In crowded environments, more robots don’t always mean faster results—in fact, too many can bring everything to a standstill. Harvard researchers discovered a surprising fix: adding a bit of ...

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Each study adds a piece to the puzzle of scientific knowledge. But any one study on its own doesn’t tell you all that much.