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Budget cuts to pandemic preparedness put us all at risk.
Research dating back to the 1950s explains why the foot fetish makes total sense.
Only one dark matter detection experiment ever gave a positive result, in conflict with all the others. This could be why. For multiple generations now, it’s been apparent to astronomers that […]
Can AI make better predictions about future crimes?
Can reading increase empathy and charitable thinking?
Increasing numbers of seniors need help with basic tasks. It doesn't have to be that way.
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Here's how to have a healthier relationship with politics.
We’ve come fantastically far in our understanding of the distant Universe. Here’s how we’ll go even farther. Sometime in 2021, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope will launch, deploy, and begin science […]
Physicist Frank Wilczek proposes new methods of searching for extraterrestrial life.
Global warming has shown that permafrost is not so permanent after all.
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Laws can't stand by themselves. Professor James Stoner explains why.
The origin and phylogeny of the Yaravirus are not yet clear.
Is the experience we call "love" felt the same in every language?
"I used to mountain climb… If I can't walk anymore, I'll crawl."
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Here's a simple method for finding out whether those shouts are good-natured or not.
The Sun will eventually become a red giant star, swallowing Mercury and Venus in the process. But what will happen to Earth? There are a few existential questions we can ask […]
A recent study on monkeys found that stimulating a certain part of the forebrain wakes monkeys from anesthesia.
One in five people have ended sex because of bad bedroom talk. Here's the data and science on how to do it right.
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Derren Brown returns to the stage with his new live, one-man show, Showman. Check it out here.
It’s been called the biggest conundrum in all of cosmology, and recent measurements just add to the confusion. One of the most puzzling facts about the Universe is that different […]