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A new study shows that most people have advice for their younger self that tends towards a few important areas.
One of Stephen Hawking's predictions seems to have been borne out in a man-made "black hole."
The 'People Map of the United States' zooms in on America's obsession with celebrity
Even more intriguing is the reason: recognizing facial expressions.
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Technology may soon grant us immortality, in a sense. Here's how.
The pizza giant Domino's partners with a Silicon Valley startup to start delivering pizza by robots.
An entire Universe of possibilities await stars like our own, even after they run out of fuel. One of the most profound rules in all the Universe is that nothing lasts […]
Could ketosis be the answer to preventing deadly seizures during deep-diving missions?
Spending between 120–300 minutes per week in nature shown to increase wellbeing.
A passenger on a California freeway shot a video of a Tesla driver dozing off at the wheel.
The war machine needs fuel, perhaps so much as to make protecting oil redundant.
Stems cells have always been pretty amazing.
An elegant, 400-year-old means of navigating the stars takes flight.
Albert Einstein is synonymous with genius. While we're all aware of his outstanding contributions to science, much of his brilliance is incomprehensible to us because it pertains to such an […]
The tactics that work now won't work for long.
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By working together, and learning from one another, we can build better systems.
It’s not impossible according to physics, but we truly don’t know how this object came to exist. Out in the extremities of the distant Universe, the earliest quasars can be found. […]
Celebrity scientists like Donna Strickland are showing that science & faith co-exist just fine.
That's only counting revenues from taxes, fees, and licenses.
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The periodic table was a lot simpler at the beginning of the universe.