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The science behind the Ben Franklin Effect reveals why giving and receiving small favors can transform your relationships, your workplace and even your self-perception. The phenomenon is named after ...

I’m starting to take it personally that the Ensemble Company keeps staging plays so challenging that it’s difficult to relay the plots without giving too much away. From the nonlinear “The Other Place ...

In a new Nature Physics paper, researchers report the first experimental observation of the transverse Thomson effect, a key thermoelectric phenomenon that has eluded scientists since it was predicted ...