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EGYPT’S HIDDEN TREASURES • WHAT WILL YOU EXPERIENCE WHEN TRAVELING WITH ARCHAEOLOGICAL PATHS?

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THE LATEST NEWS AND NOTES • FONTS, LEARNING AND MEMORY • EAVESDROPPING ANIMALS • WHY SINGERS ARE SO GOOD AT LANGUAGES • ARTIFICIAL WOMBS

How Fonts Affect Learning and Memory • TEXT STYLES IMPACT IMPORTANT COGNITIVE PROCESSES AND CAN MAKE OR BREAK INFORMATION RETENTION.

SHH! EAVESDROPPING ANIMALS MAY BE LISTENING • THROUGHOUT THE ANIMAL KINGDOM, CREATURES KEEP AN EAR OUT FOR VALUABLE INTEL — EVEN FROM DIFFERENT SPECIES.

Why Singers Have a Knack for Language • MUSICIANS’ BRAINS SEEM TO EXCEL AT TACKLING NEW TONGUES, THANKS TO THEIR MASTERY OF SOUND.

ARTIFICIAL WOMBS: SCI-FI MEETS THE NICU • SCIENTISTS ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH ANIMAL TRIALS THAT COULD SOMEDAY HELP HUMANS.

A Burning Question • CHEST PAIN, NAUSEA AND VOMITING BROUGHT THIS GRAD STUDENT TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM. HER EVASIVE ANSWERS MADE IT CLEAR THAT THIS WAS NO ROUTINE STOMACH PROBLEM.

WHO WERE THE VIKINGS? • TODAY’S POPULAR NOTIONS OF NORSE SEAFARERS HARDLY TOUCH THE SURFACE OF THEIR TRUE IDENTITY — OR THEIR INFLUENCE AROUND THE GLOBE AND ACROSS THE CENTURIES.

A TIMELINE OF TRAVEL AND TERROR

THE NORSEMEN TAKE ON NORTH AMERICA

HOW THE VIKINGS TRANSFORMED ENGLAND

THE LOWDOWN ON VIKING GARB

MODERN TECH FOR VIKING DISCOVERIES • The Vikings reigned and roamed throughout the Middle Ages, a time known for its lack of surviving written records. Still, we can study other traces left behind from their settlements and conquests — with the help of the latest technology.

INVASIVE EATS • THESE NINE PLANTS AND ANIMALS CAUSE BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF DAMAGE IN THE U.S. LUCKILY FOR THE ECO-MINDED, THEY’RE ALSO DELICIOUS.

BALANCING ACT OF SUPPLY AND DEMAND • NOT ALL NON-NATIVE SPECIES ARE INVASIVE. IN FACT, CORN AND WHEAT, TWO OF THE HIGHEST YIELD CROPS IN THE U.S., CAME FROM OVERSEAS, JUST LIKE MANY OF THESE INVASIVES.

EARTH IS A PLANET TOO! • AS RESEARCHERS STRIVE TO UNDERSTAND OUR SOLAR SYSTEM, THERE’S A PERFECT LABORATORY RIGHT UNDER OUR FEET.

EARTH AND VENUS: SEPARATED AT BIRTH

A POD’s BonDS • A RARE INTERSPECIES ADOPTION REVEALS SPERM WHALE SOCIETY IS MORE SOPHISTICATED — AND MORE PLAYFUL — THAN PREVIOUSLY THOUGHT.

The First Global Vaccination Campaign • HOW A MILITARY DOCTOR AND THE KING OF SPAIN USED ORPHANS AND ARM-TO-ARM VACCINATION TO FIGHT SMALLPOX.

(Virtual) Reality Check • MY SON’S SOCIAL ISOLATION PROMPTED ME TO RECONSIDER VIDEO GAMES — AND SOME DATED RESEARCH ABOUT THEIR INFLUENCE.

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