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In all of human history, only 24 people have ever flown to the vicinity of the Moon, traveling hundreds of thousands of miles from Earth to... Read More
Mars's methane has gone missing. Scientists first detected traces of the gas—a critical indicator of life on Earth—in the... Read More
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On Tuesday, over the course of nearly eight hours, Russian cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Sergei Prokopyev performed an unprecedented... Read More
At a remote camp just 600 kilometres from the South Pole, the race is on to melt 28,000 kilograms of snow. Within the next two weeks, a team... Read More
Back in the 1970s when organized science-based skepticism was just getting on its feet, someone such as The Amazing Randi or Joe Nickell... Read More
In 100 million years, human civilization will have bit the dust. Perhaps a nuclear war scorched the planet, or a last-ditch bid to solve... Read More
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Until last month, it was generally believed that mitochondria and their DNA are exclusively maternally inherited in humans. In a provocative... Read More
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Astronomers have cataloged nearly 4,000 exoplanets in orbit around distant stars. Though the discovery of these newfound worlds has taught us... Read More
University of Alberta scientists have identified three biomarkers for detecting mild cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease in saliva... 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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