Justin Kitch: From Degenerate Art to the Mozart Effect: This Week's Curios

Every day of the year, Curious.com CEO Justin Kitch writes a quirky fact, known as the Daily Curio, intended to tickle the brains of lifelong learners everywhere. This is a weekly digest.


Last week’s Curios covered the history of neckties, dangerously pure water, and the myth of...

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WATCH: Researchers Reveal Odd Way To Boost Your Vision

Want to boost your eyesight? There’s an app for that.


In a new baseball study, researchers have found that training your brain with a perceptual learning app just may improve your vision.


The researchers tested the vision of baseball players at the University of California in...

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Flash Physics: Nuclear diamond battery, M G K Menon dies, four new elements named

Flash Physics is our daily pick of the latest need-to-know developments from the global physics community selected by Physics World‘s team of editors and reporters

Diamond batteries run on nuclear waste




Radioactive waste from nuclear reactors could be used to create tiny diamonds...

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Names for elements 113, 115, 117, and 118 finalized by IUPAC

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Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson complete the seventh row of the periodic table.
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Nihonium, moscovium, tennessine, and oganesson complete the seventh row of the periodic table.
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Three-Parent IVF Advances

CENTER FOR EMBRYONIC CELL AND GENE THERAPY OF OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY

In efforts to prevent women who have pathogenic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations from passing these on to their offspring, researchers have been developing so-called three-parent assisted...

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Two miners dead, six missing after earthquake hits Polish mine

WARSAW At least six miners are missing and two died after an earthquake occurred at the Rudna mine in Polkowice in southwestern Poland, state news agency PAP reported on Tuesday.

An earthquake of magnitude 4.4 struck at 9:09 p.m. (3 p.m. ET), according to the U.S. Geological Survey. It...

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Kevin Kniffin: The Science of Momentum: Does a Win Today Predict a Win Tomorrow?

If your favorite team or player wins on a given day — especially if it’s a landslide win, then it’s likely that “momentum” gets thrown around by people previewing the next event. For better or worse, momentum is one of those concepts that’s sticky in our...

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