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It could cut the time needed to reach Mars in half.
You could send your potential paramour a perfume bottle, a cigar cutter, travel plans — or maybe some cocaine.
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How scientists are hearing the gravitational background "hum" of the Universe for the very first time.
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Someday, scientists could use stem cells to guide the development of synthetic organs for patients awaiting transplants.
Philosophy can focus on some dull topics. Luckily, some thinkers have spent lots of time on the philosophy of sex
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Kelly Richmond Pope, a forensic accountant, shares a simple test that puts your ethics under the spotlight.
Einstein's laws of gravity have been challenged many times, but have always emerged victorious. Could wide binary stars change all that?
A company in England has made a test that picks out the compounds from breath that reveal if people have liver disease.
Meet the masterful con-men who impressed the great and the good despite the astonishing fiction of their very existence.
There may be unknown particles lurking inside the quantum foam.
The structure is fully developed in humans, partially developed in chimps, and completely absent in Old World monkeys.
Each of our three nearest stars might have an Earth-like planet in orbit around it. Here's what we'll learn when we finally observe it.
Now that the DSM lists severe hoarding as a disorder apart from OCD, psychologists are asking what explains its prevalence.
Almost all royal lines try to legitimize their rule with legendary origin stories. Here are five of the strangest examples.
Metaphors like the Great Chain of Being can lead people to misunderstand evolution and humanity’s place in the web of life.
Decades of Alzheimer's research might have missed a cellular culprit hiding in plain sight.
Is LK-99 truly a room temperature superconductor? These 4 tests, none of which have yet been passed, will separate fact from fiction.