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The European Southern Observatory (ESO) has released a stunning 80 million-pixel image of the star cluster RCW 38, as captured by ESO's Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy (VISTA), ...

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John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...

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Mark Ozboyd is obsessed with waterfalls. On a dark, new moon night in late August of 2023, the intrepid 23-year-old and a friend hiked and scrambled nearly two miles into a national forest in north ...

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