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Don't get me wrong: I think Earth's natural satellite is beautiful and remarkable; our pale guardian, stirring our tides, dancing with... Read More
20 years ago, our understanding of the Universe underwent a revolution. For generations, we had known the Universe was expanding, but we... Read More
For years, researchers have been hunting for dark matter, which is thought to make up about 27 percent of the entire known universe. Now, an... Read More
The United States is being hit by two large foodborne illness outbreaks — first, the E. coli outbreak in romaine lettuce, and... Read More
Fox News published a startling article Monday (Dec. 3) with the headline "NASA scientist says Earth may have been visited by aliens."... Read More
Humans have language and other animals don't. That's obvious, but how it happened is not. Since Darwin's time, scientists have puzzled over... Read More
After years of suffering from mysterious symptoms, my mother Janice Thomas finally found a doctor who correctly diagnosed her with two... Read More
After a tortuous 20-year-long excavation, a mysterious ancient skeleton is starting to give up its secrets about human evolution.The first of... Read More
Farnes is a postdoc fellow at the Oxford e-Research center and has previously worked on observational astrophysics. A few days ago, Oxford... Read More
Decades of experimental effort paid off spectacularly on 14 September 2015, when the two detectors of the Laser Interferometer... Read More
Most Star Wars fans know that the name of the iconic TIE fighters is an acronym standing for “Twin ion engines.” Most space fans... Read More
NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the “really unworldly” Martian wind.The Jet Propulsion Laboratory... Read More
New research suggests that people with a narcissistic self-view are more likely to demonstrate lower support for democracy.They are also more... Read More
Today, the U.S. Department of the Interior announced the Wolfcamp Shale and overlying Bone Spring Formation in the Delaware Basin portion of... Read More
Imagine not having to charge your phone or laptop for weeks. That is the dream of researchers looking into alternative batteries that go... Read More
An international team of researchers, including Jessica Spake and Dr David Sing from the University of Exeter, have detected the inert gas... Read More
Around the world, people are living longer, healthier lives than ever before. One area this is most visible is in the number of centenarians,... Read More
Japanese scientists have created a “virtual precursor-eye” that models how stem cells in the human embryo form the real... Read More
Even when you're fluent in two languages, it can be a challenge to switch back and forth smoothly between them. It's common to mangle a split... Read More
Should we be able to genetically design our children before they are born — giving them the eye and hair color we prefer, deciding... Read More
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