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Magnetic appeal
Some of the world’s earliest applications of magnets were for feng shui by ancient Chinese cultures, and in compasses for navigators sailing the globe. Today, next-generation magnets are being...
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Uncovering ‘Miss Anne’ of the 1920s
Though the 1920s have a reputation as a fast and loose time in American history—an era of flappers and jazz music—English professor Carla Kaplan points out that the decade was really one of the most...
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Why the innocent plead guilty
In the late 1980s, Chris Ochoa was coerced into confessing to the rape and murder of the manager of a Pizza Hut restaurant in Austin, Texas. The police threatened Ochoa with the death penalty during...
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The wonder of human movement
To watch a ballerina move is to observe, perhaps, the pinnacle of coordination, to experience precise and exquisite elegance. But now imagine a rhythmic gymnast, who must not only move with the...
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Should human organs be for sale?
Why does federal law prohibit the sale of human organs, as specified in the National Organ Transplant Act of 1984? The answer, according to Kara Swanson, an associate professor of law at Northeastern...
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Some of the world’s earliest applications of magnets were for feng shui by ancient Chinese cultures, and in compasses for navigators sailing the globe. Today, next-generation magnets are being...
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Though the 1920s have a reputation as a fast and loose time in American history—an era of flappers and jazz music—English professor Carla Kaplan points out that the decade was really one of the most...
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Not just sci-fi: professor builds virtual humans, simulators to mimic our...
Will scientists ever be able to simulate the full range of human behavior? And if they could, how could those models help us better understand ourselves? These questions don’t propel the plot of the...
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