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Why the Blues Are Blue

When you listen to a lively Mozart piece in a major key, what colors do you see? If bright yellows and oranges swirled in your mind, it wouldn't surprise a group of scientists at the University of California, Berkeley. Full story

Mystery Popped: Science of Bubbles Decoded

Anyone who has lathered up soap or seen frothy suds form on top of freshly poured soda has witnessed the delicate science of bubbles in action. But while bubbles and foamy materials are common in everyday life, scientists have struggled to model suds’ complicated behavior — the way clusters of bubbl Full story

Alexander Graham Bell speaks, and 2013 hears his voice

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Nine years after he placed the first telephone call, Alexander Graham Bell tried another experiment: he recorded his voice on a wax-covered cardboard disc on April 15, 1885, and gave it an audio signature: "Hear my voice - Alexander Graham Bell." Full story

North Korea's China Influence

   Despite tough UN sanctions and really strong criticism from China, Kim Jong-un is bending to no one, reports NBC's Jim Maceda. John Bussey, WSJ, and Peter Navarro, University of California professor, discuss.

Penis-Snatching Panics Resurface in Africa

In a recent issue of "Pacific Standard" magazine, Louisa Lombard, an anthropologist at the University of California at Berkeley, described visiting a small town in the Central African Republic where she encountered two men who claimed that their penises had been stolen. Full story

Cultivating Resilience and Other Tips This Week

How to stop your brain from holding you back, figuring out what your product replaces in the market, learning to say no and more: our best tips of the week. Full story

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