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The so-called FAANG companies have lost more than $700 billion in market value since October.
Sometimes doing nothing means everything.
There are millions of asteroids in the solar system. A new study might tell us where they came from.
Thanks to genetic engineering, a child can now have three parents. But is it a good idea?
The cosmic story of us, from before the Big Bang until today, is a story that all of us share. Enjoy it, in just 200 words. In the beginning, there was […]
Hungarian cartographer travels the world while mapping its treasures.
It’s “clinically proven” to induce nightmares, says Burger King, which ran a pretty weird study.
Eugene Gholz, the associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame, posits that President Trump’s decision to suspend U.S. military operations on the Korean peninsula negates decades of foreign policy.
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On Tuesday, President Donald Trump claimed that Google is deliberately manipulating its algorithms to shut out conservative media outlets from news search results.
For accurate, factual alerts and updates, the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory is the most comprehensive, reliable news source you could possibly go to. Since 1983, the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island […]
A new study re-assesses multitasking.
Ketamine is showing promise in alleviating suicidal thoughts.
Looking at the 2011 earthquake in Japan, researchers found that natural disasters make men — but not women — more fond of taking risks.
They cost about $11 and contain 60mg of THC, the main psychoactive component of marijuana, and 10mg of CBD.
Millions of Americans didn’t vote during the midterms — excuses there are many. Some are valid.
Scientists at Stanford Medicine recently observed that some mice recovered from strokes better than others, leading them to wonder whether or not they could find evidence that specific genes played […]
Arranged marriages and Western romantic practices have more in common than we might think.
The laws of physics are not time-reversal invariant. Here’s how we know. No matter when, where, or what you are in the Universe, you experience time in only one direction: forwards. […]
Jaguar is trying to make pedestrians more comfortable around autonomous cars by giving vehicles cars human-like eyes that follow pedestrians to let them know the car ‘sees’ them.
We know the dangers of too little sleep. Now for the other side of the story.
The Standard Model explains all the particles and interactions we see. But it can’t explain this. Of all the particles that we know of, the elusive neutrino is by far the […]
An Oxford physicist tries to cast doubt on dark energy, but the data says otherwise. It was a mere 20 years ago that our picture of the Universe got a […]
A new paper explores why women gossip about each other, and identifies some key factors that influence how women choose gossiping targets.
People were about to start hunting grizzly bears in Yellowstone again, for the first time in 40 years. Thankfully, that has now been blocked.
The most surefire, easily-seen signature of life on Earth might be a cosmic red herring around other worlds. In our quest for life beyond the Solar System, it makes sense to […]
This would be the end of one of the longest economic booms since the 1990 Dot Com bubble.
America seems to know what it’s against, but what is it for? American isolationism has a checkered past, and not participating in global institutions is no longer a realistic option.
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