This mystery comes in two varieties: repeating and non-repeating. Here’s what we know so far. Imagine that you were looking out at the distant Universe, watching the stars, galaxies, and the […]
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The English Department is instituting a series of reforms that cuts across the entire university.
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Studying voice recordings of infected but asymptomatic people reveals potential indicators of Covid-19.
The shape of our Universe has long been recognized to be flat. But that isn’t the only possibility. The Universe is expanding, and goes on for farther than even our […]
Zeno’s paradox stumped philosophers, mathematicians, and intellectuals for millennia. It took physics to finally solve it. The fastest human in the world, according to the Ancient Greek legend, was the heroine […]
The week-long global protest, which is calling for an end to the age of fossil fuels, is taking place in more than 160 countries today.
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You want one. Now you may be able to survive one.
“Think R2D2,” Walmart wrote in a press release. Others are thinking “layoffs.”
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American homes are big and polluting. Here’s how to fix that.
A team of scientists created a new type of robot inspired by an octopus, and it could be a major breakthrough in the field.
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According to Harvard economists, Democrats and Republicans both perceive reality very wrong.
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Our first “Ask a Scientist” feature is all about the ever-growing universe.
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The bill would effectively legalize marijuana at the federal level, while allowing states to draft their own laws.
Without a little help from Einstein, we couldn’t have made this discovery. NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope, currently celebrating its 30th anniversary, still churns out novel discoveries. The Hubble eXtreme Deep […]
From understanding human aggression to epigenetics, Stanford University offers all 25 lessons of this fascinating course for free on YouTube.
It’s not just about SpaceX and Starlink. What we’re deciding today will have a global impact for years and decades to come. For countless millennia, human beings have gazed up into […]
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
According to researchers at Washington State University, the answer is yes.
Should we build a more powerful collider? A telescope that probes the Universe as never before? Absolutely. Here’s why. Every time someone proposes that we invest in fundamental science — to push the […]