Why (and how) a little birdsong could make Raleigh's urban spaces healthier

NC State researchers explored the mental health benefits of birdsong and restored forests, like along greenways.
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The Ringling goes back to black-and-white photography

The "Evocative Lens" exhibit features early experiments by Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz and Clarence H. White.

Inside the celebrity-backed alcohol-free brand movement that's reshaping how people drink today

From Katy Perry to Blake Lively and Tom Holland, celebrity alcohol-free brands are changing the way people drink. Here's what ...
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Police work is dogged determinaton for SPD's K-9 Unit

With hundreds of hours of certification training and constant reinforcement exercises, the Sarasota Police Department's ...

The physicist demonstrated the theory of time on the created mini-universe

Time seems to be one of the most obvious things in the universe: it moves forward, seconds change minutes, and the past cannot be returned. However, modern physics has long shown that everything is ...

Your Brain Doesn’t Just Turn Off When You Die. What Really Happens Defies Our Understanding of Reality.

New research and theories suggest the brain may remain active near death, shaping visions, memories, and possibly our sense of reality.

Psychology says why you always reach for the same mug, even when you own better ones

Almost everyone has one: a chipped or slightly faded mug that gets picked over every other cup in the cupboard without a ...
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He spent $20,000 to become Cristiano Ronaldo... it actually worked

A hyper-realistic $20,000 Cristiano Ronaldo mask becomes the centerpiece of one of the wildest celebrity pranks ever attempted. What starts as a simple experiment quickly snowballs into crowds, ...

Everywhere on Earth, women outlive men. Except in one corner of Sardinia

NB1, in collaboration with DataPulse Research, reports that in Sardinia's Blue Zone, men reach the age of 100 nearly as often ...
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The Ancient Idea That Vision Worked By Shooting Elemental Fire Out Of Your Eyeballs, And Touched The Objects You Were Seeing

There were a few problems with the idea, such as "so you're saying your eyeballs can touch the freaking Moon?" ...

Scientists have created a "black hole" of light

Physicists have taken another step towards verifying one of Stephen Hawking's most famous ideas. According to the journal ...
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Research suggests our most enduring regrets concern the selves we never became, not simply the mistakes we made

There is a particular kind of regret that does not attach itself to one bad decision. It gathers around a person who was ...