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A video is making the rounds claiming “proof” that Atlantis existed in norther Africa. This video is by Jimmy from Bright Insight... Read More
In his 2015 book Faith versus Fact, the biologist and polemicist Jerry Coyne launched one of his many attacks on religion in the name of... Read More
We don't need to be scared of everything that falls from space. In fact, literal tons of space rocks rain down daily, though that's mostly in... Read More
“Incandescent bulbs are one of the most energy-inefficient products in daily use,” Joanna McKittrick says. Touch a regular old... Read More
No biologist would mistake the microscopic "cells" that chemical biologist Neal Devaraj and colleagues are whipping up at the University of... Read More
Over the past few years, an international team of almost 200 psychologists has been trying to repeat a set of previously published... Read More
In February of last year, 64 healthy adult Kenyans checked into a university residence in the coastal town of Kilifi. After a battery of... Read More
Nothing is moving in the foundations of physics. One experiment after the other is returning null results: No new particles, no new... Read More
You probably think of new technologies as electronics you can carry in a pocket or wear on a wrist. But some of the most profound... Read More
A ubiquitous quantum phenomenon has been detected in a large class of superconducting materials, fueling a growing belief among physicists... Read More
NASA has officially committed to the first flight of its supersonic test plane in just three years.By 2021 we can expect to see (but not... Read More
A decade ago, quantum computing was still something of a parlor game. Quantum-computer advocates could make bold claims about one promising... Read More
Researchers from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have discovered how our bones grow at an atomic level, showing how an... Read More
An international team of scientists has discovered a new, massive star system—one that also challenges existing theories of how large... Read More
EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture of the whole human body at once, has produced its first... Read More
Japan's affection for robots is no secret. But is the feeling mutual in the country's amazing androids? We may now be a step closer to giving... Read More
Many people routinely take nutritional supplements such as vitamin D and fish oil in the hopes of staving off major killers like cancer and... Read More
This post is not satire. Seriously, it isn't. I can understand why you might think it was, considering my past attempts at such. But you... Read More
Epigenetics, the study of mechanisms by which genes are turned on or off without altering their genetic code or DNA sequences, is one of many... Read More
Although long life tends to run in families, genetics has far less influence on life span than previously thought, according to a new... Read More
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In the beginning, reheating created a hot plasma of elementary particles. The plasma expanded, cooled, and emitted the cosmic background radiation. Then gravity made the plasma clump, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, whatever that means.Cosmologists call it the “dark ages,†the period in the early universe where matter is already too cool to emit radiation, but not yet clumpy enough Read More
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