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If we ruin the night sky too severely, ground-based astronomy could suffer tremendously. Here’s why space is no replacement. There is an existential threat to astronomy as we know it, […]
How will Harris’ departure affect the remaining 15 candidates in the Democratic field?
In a recent interview, a former Boeing quality manager cited numerous safety concerns in the 787 Dreamliner.
The British capital’s love affair with buckets and nuggets, explained
An experimental study involving 90 heavy drinkers found promising results.
Cybercriminals have a wide variety of motivations for their attacks, and, correspondingly, there are a wide variety of targets. While few of us will find ourselves in positions where we […]
If it holds up, it would revolutionize physics and be a slam-dunk Nobel Prize. Here’s why that’s unlikely to be the case. Every so often, an experiment comes along in physics […]
Learn where your ancestors are from, the breed of your rescue dog, and if your home is safe with these easy at-home kits.
Researchers discover that not only can anxiety prevent you from sleeping, but not getting a good night’s sleep might also cause anxiety.
The semiautonomous could help to protect officers, but some are concerned about how exactly police plan to use it.
Researchers found that the popular diet could confer some benefits to your immune system.
A new study finds that societies use the same acoustic features for the same types of songs, suggesting universal cognitive mechanisms underpinning world music.
The Moon, Venus, and Jupiter are the brightest night sky objects. On Thursday evening, November 28, they’ll all align, plus Saturn, too. As the planets orbit the Sun throughout the year, […]
Some lingerie lines have failed to keep up with a new era.
Here are 10 physics courses you can take now with some of the best experts in the world.
Do we suffer from birth anxiety like we suffer from death anxiety?
Research found that overweight children were just as smart but not as successful.
MIT team successfully tests a new method for verification of weapons reduction.
Dominant wild silverbacks wax musical with their mouths full.
Playwright and novelist Deborah Levy on chaos and order in creative work. Also: marvelous digressions on the caterpillar and the octopus.
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 […]
The Internet Research Agency has learned that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
So why should we keep using them?
Researchers find what causes the glow coming from the densest objects in our universe.
There’s a reason they call work “work.”
It’s true that we have a thermodynamic arrow of time, and entropy always increases. But that can’t explain what we perceive. One of the enormous conceptual ideas that came along […]
“The hardest thing is the flying side of things.”
A tiny, perfectly preserved 3D fossil from Argentina tells us more about an early snake.
If an AT-AT walker (or something even larger) wanted to walk across a frozen lake, how thick would the ice have to be? Each winter, one of the most spectacular phenomena […]