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An almost 40-year-old theory finally has ‘smoking gun’ evidence for it. During most of their lives, stars burn stably, changing imperceptibly. The rotten egg nebula, at lower right (and shown in […]
The pilot project is in 10 stores and is 85% accurate.
A Nazi institute produced a Bible without the Old Testament that portrayed Jesus as an Aryan hero fighting Jewish people.
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Humans could, in theory, one day use scaling laws to extend our lifespans.
Antisense oligonucleotide therapy uses small molecules to alter RNA. Researchers have now used those molecules to alleviate a genetic form of blindness.
Evolutionary success is not about the number of one's children, but one's grandchildren: the children need to survive and pass on their genes.
The skeleton of the world's oldest known shark attack victim exhibits telltale wounds.
The wise, the old, and the experienced matter to a full and happy life.
Whether they’re gas giants or rocky planets makes all the difference for life. Over the past 30 years, we went from not knowing if there were planets like ours around other […]
Looking probably isn’t something you need to practice. People believe they can apprehend a painting at a glance. They read coworkers’ messages and assume they understand a situation. Or they […]
Reduction is an approach that has been successful in science but is not itself synonymous with "science."
Our program lowers reincarceration rates by 44 percent.
Whether you write it 6/28 or 28/6, it’s perfection either way. Perfection might be a wonderful thing to strive for in life, but achieving it is very rare. In the realm […]
A new study proposes that Hawking radiation could be used to find dark matter in places like primordial black holes.
Can a war be won from the air? A group of renegade pilots in the 1930s thought so.
The first of many dodecahedrons was unearthed almost three centuries ago, and we still don't know what they were for.
Metal really does sometimes stick to some people’s skin. Here’s the science of why. Every once in a while, a claim comes along that wildly challenges the mainstream scientific narrative. These […]
The evidence for a link between time spent using technology and mental health is fatally flawed.
In 1933, the skull of a 50-year-old male of the Homo longi species was found in China, puzzling researchers.