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When we listen to music and find it beautiful, our brains engage in a different pattern of activity compared to when we listen to music we don’t find beautiful. A recent study using brain imaging technology discovered that experiencing beauty…

The US DOGE Service’s access to the private data of ordinary Americans and federal employees is being challenged in several lawsuits filed this week. Three new complaints seek court orders that would stop the data access and require the deletion…

Thanks to being an incompressible medium, water transmits vibrations both farther and faster than the air. (Here’s a good video explainer on the subject.) This fact helps to explain how a US government-owned “moored passive acoustic recorder” was able to…

The story of an extraordinary romance fraud is making global headlines as its victim is mocked around the world for her naïveté. The story of Anne, a French woman in her 50s, was recently broadcast on the French TV channel…

A teacher in high school once quoted an old proverb to me: “Do something you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life!” Perhaps 18-year-old Alan Filion encountered a similar teacher during his school years in California, because…

Apple services like iMessage and FaceTime often work exclusively on Apple’s hardware, something the company uses to keep customers inside its ecosystem and encourage people who buy one Apple product to buy other Apple products so they can keep using…

An outbreak of measles in one of Texas’ least vaccinated counties continues to rapidly expand, with officials reporting 24 cases Tuesday, up from just nine confirmed on Friday. According to an update by the Texas Department of State Health Services…