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O.T. Olsen’s gorgeous ‘Piscatorial Atlas’ (1883) describes a world now destroyed and forgotten
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We’re in an era of ‘megafires’.
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Until about a decade ago, only two habitable zone planets of any size were known to astronomers: Earth and Mars.
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At a very simple level, it’s nothing but physics. Here’s why you should care. It’s not very often that a physics problem becomes a politicized issue, but that’s exactly what’s happened […]
Techshot’s 3D BioFabrication Facility successfully printed human heart tissue aboard the International Space Station.
Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).
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Participation in community science programs has skyrocketed during COVID-19 lockdowns.
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A fun and completely safe experiment for the family to try during quarantine.
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Solid, liquid, and gas are the three everyone learns. Plasma is the fourth. But there are two more, and they’re fascinating. How many states of matter are there? When you […]
Batrachopus grandis, an ancient crocodylomorph, may have chased down land prey on its own two feet.
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Thomas Baldwin’s Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
New mathematics have shown that lines of energy can be used to describe the universe.