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So much for rest in peace.
Two recent polls underscore Americans’ shifting attitudes on climate change.
A question that’s baffled physicists for nine years has been resolved by the simplest possible answer.
An amateur astronomer discovers an interstellar comet on its way to our Sun.
From Newton to today’s scientists, we’re only seeing part of the story unfold.
Scientists say it might even rain on the exoplanet, dubbed K2-18b.
He lost his passion for poetry and other aesthetic, spiritual interests.
Hurricane Dorian has devastated the islands.
We trust science more than we even realize, and yet we’re quick to reject it. Why?
The Category 5 hurricane was moving at speeds of about 1 mph over the Bahamas on Sunday and Monday.
The effects of deforestation extend farther than previously thought.
Existential dread, meet astronomical wonder.
The development of implicit biases starts at a young age and then they get reinforced over time.
The Von Braun Space Station, based on the concepts of a controversial scientist, is moving ahead with construction plans.
Exploring the idea that objects we perceive in everyday life do not reflect objective reality.
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Reviewing the conflagration within Central Africa.
Can we ever be really sure we’ve learned everything about nature?
No amount of “brute force” would make stop such a storm, experts say.
The collapse of Theranos reminds us that in science, facts have the last word.
Since the idea of locality is dead, space itself may not be an aloof vacuum: Something welds things together, even at great distances.
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The Russian-built FEDOR was launched on a mission to help ISS astronauts.
The Amazon Rainforest is often called “The Planet’s Lungs.”
Scientists make an important discovery for the future of computing.
Mother Nature and the laws of physics have a death warrant out for humanity, says Michio Kaku. Can we escape it?
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Erik Verlinde has been compared to Einstein for completely rethinking the nature of gravity.
We still don’t have proof of intelligent life beyond that on Earth.
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Though quantum teleportation has been demonstrated, the beam-me-up kind is still fiction.