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While building a new airport, construction crews uncover a gigantic collection of ancient bones.
To get a sense of faraway places, these 'atlases' let the locals give you their perspective.
Currently, more than 100 COVID-19 vaccines are being developed worldwide.
Extraterrestrial life should arise fairly easily. But intelligence is another matter entirely. Planet Earth has been around for the past 4.5 billion years or so: about the last third of […]
Sweden tops the ranking for the third year in a row.
Neo's superhuman powers were only inside of The Matrix. The outside world offered a different reality.
What does it mean to "lead without authority"?
Mathematics is the most useful tool we have for understanding the Universe. But it doesn’t answer to anything on its own. At the frontiers of theoretical physics, many of the most […]
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The planet that we are searching for is a little bit smaller and closer than we originally thought.
Inbreeding leads to a problematically small gene pool.
The Demo-2 mission represents a new era for American spaceflight.
Universities claim to prepare students for the world. How many actually do it?
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Atop certain glaciers are herds of small mossy balls that somehow move together when no one's looking.
When facing a hard decision, consider choosing change over inaction.
A debate is raging inside and outside of churches.
An MIT system uses wireless signals to measure in-home appliance usage to better understand health tendencies.
If you traveled in a straight line for far enough, would you come back to where you started? If you were to set out on a journey from anywhere on Earth’s […]
Online dating has evolved, but at what cost?
Google is probably wrong about your health condition.
Astronomers spot periodic lights coming from near the black hole at the center of our galaxy.