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Controlling nature by bulldozing dirt and pouring concrete has long been the guiding vision of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. For 250 years that ethos inspired both awe and disgust. “In my ...

Riddle me this: how can it be that reading these words activates nearly identical word-sensitive patches of the brain's visual system in you and nearly every other reader of this story? And that a ...

Simply looking at nature – or even just digital pictures of it – can relieve pain, according to new research which scanned the brains of people receiving electrical shocks. Nature's many health ...

But the ultimate nature of entropy, measurement, and spacetime may not exist in either the original or the refined formulation but in the toroidal symmetry that underlies them both.

Nature relieves physical pain: pain-related signals in the brain are reduced This effect even occurs with virtual nature -- such as nature videos Date: March 13, 2025 Source: University of Vienna ...

Dr. Conley is the author of “The Social Genome: The New Science of Nature and Nurture.” Since Francis Galton coined the phrase “nature versus nurture” 150 years ago, the debate about what ...

In the wake of the Trump administration’s funding freezes and job cuts, some researchers are planning their next move. Some scientists in the United States have told Nature that they are ...