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The early universe was filled with strange and mysterious objects. Shortly after the Big Bang, large clouds of material may have formed black... Read More
Only children always want to get their way, can't share and are generally selfish—or so the long-held prejudice goes. According to... Read More
Your mouth contains a world's worth of bacteria. Roughly 7.7 billion humans dwell on Earth while some six billion bacteria inhabit the human... Read More
Anyone who watched the launch of United Launch Alliance's Delta IV Heavy rocket on Saturday was treated to an up-close view of the liftoff.... Read More
We've spent decades trying to decode our supermassive black hole, but crucial clues could've been in front of us all along.Using an array of... Read More
Run a hand down your forearm, or press your fingers together—now imagine someone else taking the same actions. The two sensations feel... Read More
Physicists are drawing up plans to dismantle two of the largest experiments at the Gran Sasso National Laboratory in central Italy. The... Read More
In remarks last week announcing his vision for American missile defense, President Trump said “we will recognize that space... Read More
Scientific research on the effects of marijuana is rife with holes, thanks in large part to it still being categorized at the federal level... Read More
Molecular genetic engineering has spawned a strange new allergy. No, not the kind of allergy that causes hives or wheezing; rather, an... Read More
"Super donors" — people whose stool donations have strikingly high success rates in poo transplants — have turned up in multiple... Read More
New research on the U.S.'s most economically important agricultural plant - corn - has revealed a different internal structure of the plant... Read More
Immune cells called macrophages are supposed to serve and protect, but cancer has found ways to put them to sleep. Now researchers at the... Read More
Early adult general cognitive ability (GCA) — the diverse set of skills involved in thinking, such as reasoning, memory and perception... Read More
The world of the dinosaurs just got a bit more bizarre with a newly discovered species of freshwater shark whose tiny teeth resemble the... Read More
Scientists say they can predict whether a person can expect to live longer or die sooner than average, by looking at their DNA.The team has... Read More
Synthetic biology is like genetic engineering on steroids. Using cutting edge computational design, synthetic biology aims to design novel... Read More
Remember Innerspace, the comedy sci-fi movie from the ‘80s about a microscopic manned pod injected into a human? Although we're years... Read More
This year has had its share of science and technology advances from Army researchers. The RDECOM Research Laboratory, the Army's corporate... Read More
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I talked a bit on Twitter last night about the Past Hypothesis and the low entropy of the early universe. Responses reminded me that there are still some significant misconceptions about the universe (and the state of our knowledge thereof) lurking out there. Read More
