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Your life is far more arbitrary than you might think.
Unstable politics and virtue signaling are responsible for creating bureaucratic nightmares.
The contact binary system KIC 9832227 is worth another look. Astronomers have seen some incredible occurrences across space and time. The nova of the star GK Persei, shown here in an […]
Cars are no longer just a way to get from A to B.
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Using image analysis tools developed for astronomy, researchers are predicting cancer therapy responses.
South Korea is piloting a CCTV system it hopes will save lives.
For decades, researchers have proposed that climate change and human-caused environmental destruction led to demographic collapse on Easter Island. That's probably false, according to new research.
Trees store carbon dioxide, have a cooling effect in cities, and reduce flood risks.
Biomedical science assumes that people want to live as long as possible. They don't.
Age ain't nothing but a number, but "inflammatory age" may be real.
Hidden variables aren’t ruled out, but they can’t get rid of quantum weirdness. Ever since the discovery of the bizarre behavior of quantum systems, we’ve been forced to reckon with […]
If you truly want to understand modern astrophysics, knowing how to read this graph is essential.
Two-thirds of romances start out as friendships.
Over the coming decades, over 100,000 new satellites are expected. For countless millennia, whenever we were faced with a clear, cloudless, moonless night, all of humanity was able to witness […]
Technology usually has more pros than cons, but every benefit still carries some risk.
When facing a predator, single cells sometimes unite to defend themselves, paving the way for more complex multicellular life forms to evolve.
Jupiter's mysterious auroral events are caused by vibrating waves of plasma.
The dream of zero resistance is closer than you may think. One of the biggest physical problems in modern society is resistance. Not political or social resistance, mind you, but electrical […]