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Awareness of one's own heartbeat has some positive effects.
An artificial island in the North Sea is the biggest building project ever in Danish history - and could pave the way for many more.
Can spacekime help us make headway on some of the most pernicious inconsistencies in physics?
The retraction crisis has morphed into a citation crisis.
Since 2015, the Women in the Workplace report has evaluated the successes of women in corporate America alongside the challenges they face. Sponsored by McKinsey & Co. and Lean In, […]
Something isn’t adding up, but it isn’t a calibration error. It’s been nearly 100 years since we discovered that the Universe was expanding. Ever since, the scientists who study the […]
The new treatment targets the underlying genetic cause of the disease.
Democritus also did not believe in free will but was still known as the "laughing philosopher."
The public sphere should be open to conflict.
Both views are equally spectacular, but unequally informative. Every so often, a creative amateur project highlights our professional achievements. This mosaic shows the region between the constellations of Cygnus and […]
Biologists use commonly-found insects that engage in cannibalism to prove a key evolutionary concept.
The neoliberal call for more 'choice', seems hard to resist.
A new model of the Antikythera mechanism reveals a "creation of genius."
A new study makes a compelling case for the origin of unexplained masses of underground rock causing changes to the Earth's magnetic field.
Reconnecting muscle pairs allows for better sensory feedback from the limb.
What's to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?
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Philosophers, theoretical physicists, psychologists, and others consider what or who is really in control.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago find that death triggers increased activity in certain brain cells.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
Results from an experiment using the Large Hadron Collider challenges the accepted model of physics.