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It's been nearly a century since scientists first theorized that the Universe was expanding, and that the farther away a galaxy was from us,... Read More
We all love our most cherished ideas about how the world and the Universe works. Our conception of reality is often inextricably intertwined... Read More
Cognitive biases – essentially errors in thinking – plague humankind. Spending money or exerting effort on some activity in the... Read More
Science may have enabled us to travel in space and trace the history of the entire universe, but it has not yet been able to answer exactly... Read More
A mother's milk, rich in an exquisitely tailored mix of fats, proteins, vitamins and minerals, provides all the nutrition a helpless infant... Read More
Rogue nations that want to hide nuclear weapons tests may one day be thwarted by antineutrinos.Atomic blasts emit immense numbers of the... Read More
More than 3,000 years ago, the ancient Maya spread across the Yucatán Peninsula and neighboring areas, clearing rainforest for... Read More
In May 2007, Wim Hof went on a short hike in well-worn summer clothes, a pair of shorts and open-toed sandals. But it may have been a poor... Read More
The philosopher René Descartes, who lived for a time near the royal gardens of St Germain-en-Laye just outside Paris, was intrigued by... Read More
I am not talking about dubious research, but rather research into the phenomenon of bullshit (BS) itself. BS has an operational definition or... Read More
For the last year or so, Stratolaunch has conducted a number of ground-based tests on the world's largest aircraft, both inside its... Read More
All the fundamental forces of the universe are known to follow the laws of quantum mechanics, save one: gravity. Finding a way to fit gravity... Read More
“I was facing my clothes rack where I have a bunch of stuff hanging off of it,” Brandon Tan says. “And since it was dark,... Read More
An international team of researchers led by the University of Bristol have demonstrated that light can be used to implement a... Read More
An international team, including researchers at Stony Brook University and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, has... Read More
An international team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Harvard University has discovered that... Read More
Last year, physicists at MIT, the University of Vienna, and elsewhere provided strong support for quantum entanglement, the seemingly far-out... Read More
For decades scientists aspired to modify the code of life. Tom Whipple meets Jennifer Doudna, who succeeded Read More
"No one really knows how many there will be," she says. Immunologists had already counted more than 300 in the immune system alone. The eye's... Read More
Brown fat tissue in the body can burn enormous amounts of energy to generate heat, and studies in humans and animals have suggested that... Read More
Sauna bathing is an activity used for the purposes of pleasure, wellness, and relaxation. Emerging evidence suggests that beyond its use for... Read More
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