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Study: You would spend 90 extra days in jail in a private prison
A new study suggests that private prisons hold prisoners for a longer period of time, wasting the cost savings that private prisons are supposed to provide over public ones.
Want to live 100+ years? You may need unusually good DNA repair
A new study finds an unusual genetic difference in people over 105.
Discovered: 78,000 years ago, the oldest known burial ritual in Africa
How do archaeologists know if someone was buried intentionally tens of thousands of years ago?
MIT artificial intelligence tech can generate 3D holograms in real-time
The solution for better 3D visualization could lie in a 60-year-old technology remade for the digital world: holograms.
Humanity’s most distant space probe captures a strange sound
A new paper reveals that the Voyager 1 spacecraft detected a constant hum coming from outside our Solar System.
For $50, convert your phone into a powerful chemical, pathogen detector
A team of scientists managed to install onto a smartphone a spectrometer that’s capable of identifying specific molecules — with cheap parts you can buy online.
Study: Dunbar’s number is wrong. You can have more than 150 friends
Dunbar’s number is a popular estimate for the maximum size of social groups. But new research suggests that it’s a fictitious number based on flimsy data and bad theory.
Why do we remember more by reading in print vs. on a screen?
The author of ‘How We Read Now’ explains.