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After a wait of 397 years in orbit, we’re finally getting a truly ‘Great’ Conjunction. Recently, December 21, 2020, Jupiter and Saturn finally met. Looking towards the southwest skies from […]
At the height of the first wave, many people took heart from the drop in air pollution resulting from global lockdowns.
New research shows that experiencing an opposite-sex body in virtual reality impacted the subject's gender identity.
There's no such thing as a miracle drug.
A study explores how your dog does when you're not home.
It doesn’t propagate at infinite speeds, and that’s a problem for Newton. When you look at the Sun, the light you’re seeing isn’t the light that’s being emitted right now. Instead, […]
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The expansion of the universe is speeding up—contrary to what many physicists expected. A "heat death" is coming, but it's not what you think.
With just a few more neutron star mergers, we’ll have the best constraints of all-time. How fast is the Universe expanding? Ever since the expanding Universe was first discovered nearly […]
More evidence that we're drowning in microplastic particles.
Scientists watch as mice mouse around an onscreen maze.
The federal government and private insurers greatly increased Americans' telehealth access during the pandemic. Will these changes be permanent?
Northwell Health
Three decades after the demise of the GDR, its familiar contours keep coming back from the dead.
While most of these deaths are driven by external factors, interventions can still help prevent them.
We have been rejecting science for far too long. We all need to embrace it. For as long as human civilization has existed, those societies that have embraced science have had […]
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The search for alien life is far too human-centric. Our flawed understanding of what life really is may be holding us back from important discoveries about the universe and ourselves.
John Templeton Foundation
Perspective twisting books on biology, social science, medical science, cosmology, and tech.
Spoiler: Most people actually approved of their government's approach.
Researchers from Harvard receive permission for a test that may help cool Earth and fight global warming.