The Universe is dark, but the distorted light reveals its presence. When we look at the objects in the Universe, the mass just doesn’t add up. A galaxy that was […]
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A new study discovers how blazars shoot out jets of radiation towards Earth.
DNA molecules are highly programmable.
Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic caused colleges to start teaching remotely, students balked at the idea of paying full tuition for online learning. It’s not hard to understand why. […]
By projecting lifetime risk, an alarming new medical study centers the human lives that will be lost due to gun violence and drug addiction in the United States.
Non-partisans are real, and their lack of partisanship has a cognitive element.
The system is basically facial recognition technology, but for cars.
A new study shows that naming conventions will change how infants represent objects in their memories.
One reason to suspect you have COVID-19 may be the order in which the symptoms appear.
Science has been male-biased far too long.
The Baltic nation rolls out an unlikely tourist attraction: 47 weird ice cream flavors.
Researchers figure out the function of mysterious heart structures first described by da Vinci.
It likely isn’t the rare occurrence we once thought it was. In our Solar System, there’s one overwhelming source of mass that all the planets orbit around: our Sun. Each planet […]
Fossils depicting animals in action are very rare.
Why do Black newborns have a relatively high mortality rate in the U.S. — and how does the race of the doctor factor in?
The human body is endlessly fascinating.
If there are cracks in Einstein’s theory, this is how to find them. Is Einstein’s most powerful theory, General Relativity, always correct? Or will there come a point where it breaks […]
The finding is remarkably similar to the Dunning-Kruger effect, which describes how incompetent people tend to overestimate their own competency.
Surveys show three different types of couples who live apart together.
The father of all giant sea bugs was recently discovered off the coast of Java.
The theory could resolve some unanswered questions.
It’s fundamentally different from space. Here’s how. Here’s a question that most of us have been asked at some point in our lives, “what’s the shortest distance between two points?” By […]
New documents confirm that the government agency—one of many—has been using a tracking company.
Scientists are seeking ways to safely connect computers to the brain.
When one group says “A” and another group says “B,” consider that everyone might be wrong. One of the biggest enemies of scientific truth is the setup of a false dichotomy. […]
New research conducted on the brains of mice suggest it may be possible to “switch off” particular food cravings.
The immune system seems able to “remember” the coronavirus, and therefore able to prevent — or minimize the severity of — reinfection.
What good is a conspiracy theory you can’t profit from?
The rings are raining down onto the planet, and disappearing surprisingly fast. 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System first formed. Protoplanetary disks, which all solar systems are thought to […]
New research reveals that because of an optical illusion, we’ve been viewing sperm incorrectly for nearly 350 years.