Researchers discovered a mysterious quantum effect that breaks a 60-year-old physics theorem.
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A new children’s program may help displaced Syrian children find stability and belonging in their new communities.
Two house mouse subspecies meet again in a hybrid zone strangely reminiscent of the Iron Curtain
“For decades, a national anti-cruelty law was a dream for animal protectionists. Today, it is a reality.”
If you’ve ever had an affinity for machines or just wanted to know how to fix faulty household gadgets on your own, then learning the basics of electrical engineering might be up your alley.
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Nearly anything political is now branded with a catchy hashtag.
The move reflects a broader nationwide effort to lower prices of the life-saving drug.
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Deepfakes are “neither intrinsically good nor evil.”
As this map of Bouguer’s gravity anomaly shows, the pull of the earth varies considerably by region.
Can changing who delivers your electricity to you solve a slew of problems?
Mycologist Paul Stamets believes they should be.
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Reliability and innovation are the twin pillars of survival for any business. But it’s the rare company that’s willing and able to commit to rediscovering the leading edge on a […]
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Bill Bryson’s new book, “The Body: A Guide For Occupants,” provides important (and funny) lessons in anatomy, neuroscience, physiology, biology, and more.
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The Leonid meteor shower peaks today. Its parent comet taught us where meteor showers come from. Every year, as Earth regularly orbits the Sun, meteor showers repeatedly recur. While August’s Perseids […]
Doctors put a human into suspended animation for the first time ever.
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Millennial income did not recover from the Great Recession like older generations’, a disparity that can have dire consequences for future generations.
Having helped transform how creative work is financed, Yancey Strickler has moved on from Kickstarter, the company he co-founded toward a kind of values reset that moves us away from a narrow, unsustainable, inhumane obsession with profit at all costs.
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While legalization has benefits, a new study suggests it may have one big drawback.