Welcome to the Thursday edition of Hawaii Science Digest.
In today’s post, we review the 10 most popular science stories of 2019 compiled by “Discover Magazine.”
Views expressed in this post are those of the reporters and correspondents.
Content supplied by “Discover Magazine.”
Accessed on 26 December 2019, 1410 UTC.
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You may have heard of the dark triad, the trio of humans’ darkest personality traits. Researchers finally created a test for our best traits, called the light triad.
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Take a polar bear. Take a lion. Mash them together and chuck them in a time machine, and you’ve got the massive carnivore Simbakubwa kutokaafrika.
About a researcher’s push to understand how an ancient yoga technique can change our cells.
A version of a gene that helps give tomatoes their flavor is actually missing in about 93 percent of modern, domesticated varieties.
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Although they never hopped on a surfboard, Neanderthals were plagued by surfer’s ear. It’s evidence that the ancient human cousins likely spent a fair amount of time in the water.
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Life, as they say, goes on. Until one day it doesn’t. Here are four of the most devastating natural events in recorded human history, and the societies that they wiped off the map. |
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From massive fortresses to sprawling suburbs, a bold new vision of the vanished Maya civilization takes shape.
The Big Bang is the defining narrative of modern cosmology: a bold declaration that our universe had a beginning and has a finite age, just like the humans who live within it.
The idea that the body stops working after we die doesn’t take into account how weird our bodies actually are.
The way to heal schizophrenia might be through the gut.
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Until next time:
Russ Roberts
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