Fingers and toes become wrinkled after being in water for long periods, and now new research explains why. The transformed skin improves our grip on wet objects.Aside from answering why we get the wrinklies after bathing, swimming and hand-washing dishes,
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Thirty years ago most psychologists, philosophers and psychiatrists thought that babies and young children were irrational, egocentric and amoral. They believed children were locked in the concrete here and now—unable to understand cause and effect, imagi
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Continue reading >>The news that 50-year-old DNA provided a break in the Boston Strangler murder case may have you wondering: just how long does DNA last?
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