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New insights into the role of water vapor may help researchers predict how the planet will respond to warming.
Our experience of time may be blinding us to its true nature, say scientists.
Cryovolcanoes that eject ice instead of magma have been confirmed to exist on Ceres, which will help studying this formation on other planets and moons throughout the solar system.
Scientists think constructing a miles-long wall along an ice shelf in Antarctica could help protect the world’s largest glacier from melting.
It’s a development that could one day lead to much better treatments for osteoporosis, joint damage, and bone fractures.
Gut bacteria play an important role in how you feel and think and how well your body fights off disease. New research shows that exercise can give your gut bacteria a boost.
Through computationally intensive computer simulations, researchers have discovered that “nuclear pasta,” found in the crusts of neutron stars, is the strongest material in the universe.
A groundbreaking new study shows that octopuses seemed to exhibit uncharacteristically social behavior when given MDMA, the psychedelic drug commonly known as ecstasy.
It deploys nets to capture useless space junk.
Overspeciliazation may be hampering progress in the context of higher education and scientific research.
The billionaire is also inviting eight artists along with him. It would be the first time a civilian crew has participated in a mission to the moon.
Research shows that the way math is taught in schools and how its conceptualized as a subject is severely impairing American student’s ability to learn and understand the material.
Maybe try counseling first before you try this, married folks.
Colonel Chris Hadfield talks to us about the formalities that astronauts have to use, and how it can help us here on earth.
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The universe is a huge place, inconceivably vast. And it can make even the most brilliant minds feel very, very small.
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Trash on earth is pretty bad. But space trash is at a whole other level.
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When you have the opportunity to take gravity away from the human body, the results are pretty fasninating.
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Binary stars and common envelope evolution illustrate messy but “tasty” science.
Multi-messenger astronomy further widens our window to the universe.
Want to be a great scientist? Think like a child.
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Heather Heying knows that a true understanding of the world comes not from the answers, but the questions as well.
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Fundamental physics must reconsider its current path and value system.
“One small step for man” costs a lot of money. Who’s going to help pay the bill for the next bout of space exploration?
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Michelle Thaller from NASA examines if it’s possible to put up a giant disk to block out the sun’s rays and cool Earth.
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Current physician and former NASA astronaut Scott Parazynski knows a thing or two about out-of-this-world success.
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Sabine Hossenfeder has some problems with how it’s practiced today.
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