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Health & Medicine

A new study has linked microplastics to heart attacks and strokes. Here’s what we know 

Patients with microplastics in their arteries were 4.5 times more likely to have a heart attack, stroke or die within the next three years.

Life

During a total solar eclipse, some colors really pop. Here’s why

As a solar eclipse approaches totality and our eyes adjust to dimming light, our color vision changes. It’s called the Purkinje effect.

Genetics

Here’s why some pigeons do backflips

Meet the scientist homing in on the genes involved in making parlor roller pigeons do backward somersaults.

Neuroscience

Chickadees use memory ‘bar codes’ to find their hidden food stashes

Unique subsets of neurons in a chickadee’s memory center light up for each distinct cache, hinting at how episodic memories are encoded in the brain.