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“This will be one of the most important datasets since the mapping of the Human Genome.”
A marine scientist explains the threat of the Loop Current, a 800-pound gorilla of Gulf hurricane risks.
Wizbang innovations capture the public’s imagination, but thoughtful, incremental development is often more valuable to those in need.
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Journaling helped Marcus Aurelius cultivate the emotional intelligence necessary to steer Rome through turbulent times.
A revolution of the mind must occur in order for humanity to succeed on a finite planet.
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A gigantic bacterium evolved differently than fundamental models of biology would have predicted. Simply put, these bacteria shouldn’t exist.
Ukraine destroyed a railway to prevent passage from Transnistria into Ukraine.
China’s dominance of the rare earth metal industry is part of its overall geopolitical strategy.
Do they have real, observable effects, or are they merely calculational tools?
All marbled crayfish descended from a single clone discovered in Heidelberg, Germany in 1995.
The controversial theory about magic mushrooms and human evolution gets a much-needed update.
Technology will not save the world, and it is inherently neither good nor bad. But, when tech is coupled to human virtue, good will prevail.
An exclusive interview with physicist Lee Smolin reveals how abandoning Einstein’s dream may have been a terrible mistake.
Pluto failed to meet the definition of a planet, but some astronomers think there might be a legitimate Planet 9 out there.
Although everyone knows that coal-based energy is a thing of the past, declarations about nuclear power plants somehow do not want to enter into force.
Our huge, expanding Universe may truly be infinite. But if the set of possible quantum outcomes is also infinite, which “infinity” wins?
The answer to the age-old philosophical question of whether there is meaning in the Universe may ultimately rest upon the power of information.
New mathematics have shown that lines of energy can be used to describe the universe.
Popular media often frame scientists as having a cold, sterile view of the world. That couldn’t be further from the truth.
Alibaba has played a key role in China’s meteoric economic rise.
Is it groupthink? Or is there a deeper reason? In the early half of the 20th century, even after the discovery of the expanding Universe, physicists considered a wide variety of […]
The emergence of life in the universe is as certain as the emergence of matter, gravity, and the stars. Life is the universe developing a memory, and our chemical detection system could find it.
Lots of people have seen lots of bizarre events and phenomena that defy our conventional experience. But is there a scientific explanation?
The World Air Quality Index shows how clean your city’s air is, in real time.
Civilization is facing an existential threat from climate change. Will we humans make it? Does anyone in the universe make it?