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If things had gone just slightly differently on a tense night in 1983, today would be the 35th anniversary of the start of of World War III,... Read More
The marathon race has long been considered the ultimate test of human endurance. But the last few decades have seen growing numbers of... Read More
In a new study, 16 volunteers went above and beyond in the name of a better diagnosis for inflammatory bowel disease: They drank their own... Read More
Does our universe exist in more than just three dimensions?Probably not on large scales, according to new research published July 23 in the... Read More
Over the past several years, some materials have proved to be a playground for physicists. These materials aren't made of anything special... Read More
Several years ago, when I was still at RealClearScience, I had the misfortune of meeting some people who worked for the Union of Concerned... Read More
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Climate models show a warming Earth radiates more heat into space, but when pushed too far, and this release valve shuts down, temperatures... Read More
A new study has inspired headlines claiming a cure for Alzheimer's disease could be available within six years – but are we genuinely... Read More
In October 2017, a pair of treasure-hunting metal detectorists made an extraordinary discovery near a Swiss lake: a sculpted bronze hand with... Read More
For the first time, astronomers may have watched a massive stellar explosion give rise in real time to a superdense dead star called a... Read More
What did Earth look like more than 4 billion years ago? This was before humans carved its wonders on stone, before trees etched the seasons... Read More
Bombing raids by Allied forces during the Second World War not only caused devastation on the ground but also sent shockwaves through Earth's... Read More
UNSW and RMIT researchers have discovered a revolutionary and cheap way to make filters that can turn water contaminated with heavy metals... Read More
A team of researchers at the University of Delaware's Center for Catalytic Science and Technology (CCST) has discovered a novel two-step... Read More
Every year, millions of people have vacations and business trips ruined when they succumb to “traveler's diarrhea” during their... Read More
Electroceuticals—devices that treat ailments with electrical impulses—have a long history in medicine. Think pacemakers for the... Read More
Three years after its discovery of skeletal stem cells in mice, the same research team has identified the human version of this precursor to... Read More
Sometimes kids trip and fall, and their teeth take the hit. Nearly half of children suffer some injury to a tooth during childhood. When that... Read More
Although some people embrace the saying "bald is beautiful," for others, alopecia, or excessive hair loss, can cause stress and anxiety. Some... Read More
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The CRISPR patent dispute between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute is finally over. As almost everyone following the case predicted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Monday the U.S. patent office's decision that there was “no interference-in-fact†between UC Berkeley's patent application and more than a dozen Broad patents. Read More
