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Neither one reflects the other; they’re both blue for entirely different reasons. If you’ve ever been curious about the world you live in, you’ve probably wondered why the sky is […]
A new study shows that environment, not genetics, determines behavioral patterns of eating in youth that persist throughout life.
Starbucks isn’t accepting bitcoin—yet.
The entire device is about the size of an ice chest, and the temperature it achieves will be 10 billion times colder than the vacuum of space.
The researchers in this study found that doctors are prescribing opioids even to patients who don’t have any pain-related symptoms. Why?
Hitler and other Nazis were fond of a strange theory that the world was made of ice.
Throughout history, anarchists have been responsible for bombings and assassinations, including some very recent ones.
Electrons show chemists how to see more with less.
New research identifies an unexpected source for some of earth’s water.
Our outer Solar System, from Jupiter to Neptune, isn’t unique after all. In the early 1990s, scientists began detecting the first planets orbiting stars other than the Sun: exoplanets. The easiest […]
California’s raging fires show how climate change can unleash totally new—and deadly—kinds of weather.
Once hunted to near-extinction, humpback whales living in southern oceans near Antarctica are making a comeback. But will it last?
Trump said USMCA is “the most important trade deal we’ve ever made by far.”
Who should sit atop the iron throne? Let your DNA decide. Here on Earth, we hold one important truth to be self-evident above all others: that all humans are created equal. […]
By being someone else, and seeing and discovering the world through the eyes of other people, that can only increase our empathy… and decrease our own egocentric view of the world.
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Weather isn’t climate. The President isn’t a scientist. And physics is still real. The country is freezing in an unprecedented fashion, and global warming is to blame. Sound crazy? The cold […]
Think getting along with people that are nothing like you is hard? Here’s how astronauts do it, 254 miles above Earth on the ISS.
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The Perseid meteor shower during this weekend’s new moon should be fabulous.
So-called ‘positive stress’ has been growing in popularity among Silicon Valley workers.
NASA just cancelled its only lunar rover in development, despite President Donald Trump’s orders to expand lunar expeditions.
It’s not about the resolution but about how your mind tackles the problem.
The coming few years should really tell us a lot more about them.
The thick sheets of ice at these eight sites could provide the reservoir of water necessary for human expeditions to Mars.
The Mars landing is a reminder that we never know what—or whom—we might discover out there.
A single, complete view of half the world was enough to teach us how these distant, frozen bodies work. On July 14, 2015, NASA’s New Horizons flew by Pluto. Pluto’s atmosphere, […]
Scientists have been probing our solar system for extraterrestrial life.
Both effects could be responsible for a redshift. But only one makes sense for our Universe. In physics, like in life, there are often multiple solutions to a problem that […]
This asteroid is feeling itself, clearly.