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the brain, tends to deteriorate with age. This is not a satisfactory explanation for depression
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compared physics with biology or philosophy with sociology. It seemed that we had stumbled onto an explanation that was general enough
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human hunting brought about this megafauna extinction. New radiocarbon dating results support the environmental explanation. Arctic biologist R. Dale
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fields and farmlands have vanished since 1970. Rosenberg says the most likely explanation involves changing agricultural practices
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Is Reshaping Global Politics Research shows perceived threats from outside may be the unifying explanation behind Brexit, Trump and
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with any certainty just how bad global warming may get. There is a simple explanation for this
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ts” and “godd*mnits.” This research has led to a competing explanation for swearing
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t they colonized our galaxy?” asks Tegmark. “To me, the most likely explanation is that if the
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why are so many people in a near moral panic over GMOs? One explanation may be found in
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our cosmic horizon that did not have time to communicate. The popular explanation for this
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sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what
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Some 12,000 papers have been published on synaptic strength without providing a good explanation for how
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as the tip of the Aleutian Islands. The standard explanation for this
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Puzzling Havana Syndrome injuries that have afflicted U.S. diplomats may have a more complicated explanation than solely pulsed microwaves
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feeling no mood changes throughout the month, so the researchers offer another explanation for the
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Privacy Policy . Sign Up Anne Rammelsberg, a chemistry professor at Millikin University, offers this explanation: Ultraviolet (UV) light kills
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to be “objects,” as confirmed by the Navy ) needs a coherent explanation that should accommodate and
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star. For this reason, the difference between the primordial black hole explanation and the
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simply a result of luck, probability or a non-scientific explanation such as extrasensory perception
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ratio of brain to body mass—does not provide a satisfying explanation for interspecies
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at the soil in search of tasty ants. Abea believed this explanation for the
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Germinal (1885) kills because of a murderous rage inherited from distant ancestors--"an explanation," Kern writes, "that is
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especially for younger people. HERBENICK: We don’t expect there to be one explanation or one driver in
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s cytoplasm, rather than the nucleus where the DNA resides) had eluded explanation. We now know that
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s cytoplasm, rather than the nucleus where the DNA resides) had eluded explanation. We now know that
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immediately enhanced performance just as much as the longer naps without any grogginess. An explanation for this
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The disorder is complex and has so far eluded a simple biological explanation Hal Arkowitz, Scott O
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The disorder is complex and has so far eluded a simple biological explanation Hal Arkowitz, Scott O
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Sometimes they found signs of synchrony and other times not, with no explanation why. "The answer
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on the head, with an entire section titled “UAP probably lack a single explanation.” Some of the
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employer characteristics. The authors conclude that racial bias is not a likely explanation for these
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passenger-filled car that accidentally entered a bad neighborhood? The most obvious explanation for ‘Oumuamua
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previously supposed. Fast Males, Finicky Females The origin of the evolutionary explanation of past
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Academy of Sciences (NAS), a scientific theory is “a well-substantiated explanation of some
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March 2020 ( reference ) According to Parnia, this study presents “a coherent, mechanistic explanation” for how
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that in the absence of other evidence, the simplest explanation is more likely to
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that in the absence of other evidence, the simplest explanation is more likely to
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from its stars and other visible matter by about 5,000 light-years. One explanation is that the
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Rossi, a professor of chemistry at Vassar College, provides the following explanation: Both diamond and
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Thompson Neuroscience March 21, 2024 Babies Smell Sweet, but Teenagers Stink. Is Evolution the Explanation? Carboxylic acids make teens
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preliminary visits. Bells rang in the dark, a Victrola played without explanation and the
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those of the old one. For decades, the canonical explanation for how
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light observed by the Kepler space telescope have so far confounded attempts at an explanation Adam Mann Space &
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author of the new study, published in Communications Psychology . “We give an explanation of why
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sociologist W.E.B. Du Bois was concerned that race was being used as a biological explanation for what
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cosmos and pushes outward on space itself. This activity is the most likely explanation for dark
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in this case, the DNA damage-and-repair cycle offers one explanation for how
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the feeling that they’re finally getting what they deserve. Whatever the underlying explanation, the results
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for decades. But in the past few years, a once-heretical explanation has quickly gained momentum
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examinations of this celestial passerby showed it had several properties that defied easy natural explanation . ‘Oumuamua’s apparent shape
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to the star is younger. Although the result is correct, the explanation is misleading. Some people
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particles—supersymmetric particles are the most popular candidates. The problem with this explanation is that supersymmetry isn
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the universe isn’t just expanding,” Scolnic says. “It’s accelerating its expansion.” The explanation for that
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the DOE’s position, or what that new information might be. The latest explanation of the
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majority of their time talking about themselves? Recent research suggests a simple explanation: because it feels good
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They had novel combinations of transgenic traits," Sagers says. "The most parsimonious explanation is these traits are
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we must believe the inflationary theory because it offers the only simple explanation of the
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to wind up into a spiral form. The trouble with this simple explanation is that the
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kind of frequency. It doesn’t fit as well as the solar explanation.” Such large, frequent spikes
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and their impact. But research has shown that when people are fearful, oversimplified narratives, conspiratorial explanation and messages
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is, a salty liquid-water ocean—as the signal’s only plausible explanation. By the mid
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claims of vitamin D’s superhealing powers have been overstated. I especially appreciated her explanation of co
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and have not shown any signs of being burned. The real explanation has only just come
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know the answer, unconsciously, either without or well before knowing why. The conscious explanation comes later, if at
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Puzzling Havana Syndrome injuries that have afflicted U.S. diplomats may have a more complicated explanation than solely pulsed microwaves
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to Adam Falk that I had turned to ChatGPT for an explanation. My prompt into the
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sees to make some kind of sense. “An honest-to-goodness explanation would trace every single
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limited to observations by U.S. armed forces. “There may not be a single explanation to all
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of the primary reasons that so many bees die each winter as well as an explanation for colony
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Devoid of Dark Matter The newfound object NGC 1052-DF2 defies easy explanation and could
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out why so many of us believe in phenomena that defy logical explanation, revealing a surprising
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our study of how people reacted to environmental activist Mark Lynas’s explanation of why
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mysterious—even scientists occasionally use the word “magic” when talking about it. One straightforward explanation could be that coherence
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black boys. A reader named Michael wrote, “Why is racism the only explanation for this
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as NC-20, against the work of career scientists "with no clear explanation of who
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and William L. Donn, a geologist-meteorologist, had developed a new explanation for why
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Navigating textual landscapes Understanding how reading on paper is different from reading on screens requires some explanation of how
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of the primary reasons that so many bees die each winter as well as an explanation for colony
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him the radiometric timescale was fully established, he acknowledged that there was as yet no explanation for the
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other features of an input image before GPT-4V interprets it. Without that straightforward explanation, Papailiopoulos says it’s
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nebula’s core. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA and STScI The most startling explanation is that the
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related structures (homologues) in contemporary relatives. Although evolutionary theory provides a robust explanation for the
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Specialists are still working out why pterosaurs ended up with such crazy anatomy, but one probable explanation is what I call
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of the law is creationism, the rejection of a scientific explanation of the
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the emergence of abstract thought and metaphor. A common explanation of synesthesia
Why does the Earth's magnetic field flip over the course of history? What attempts have been made to
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Hawaiian lavas and on corings from the sea bed. Here is his explanation. We know from magnetic
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Else Østergård, a textile expert at the Danish National Museum, proposed an explanation for the
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on a creative pursuit. A new study provides a biological explanation for this
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imbalance in long- and short-gene expression provided a possible explanation for why
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More blood means more energy and oxygen, which makes our brain perform better. Another explanation for why
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the data are clear, and I don't see a compelling alternative explanation.” The LHC
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past 20 years has finally begun to provide at least a partial explanation for why