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A school lesson leads to more precise measurements of the extinct megalodon shark, one of the largest fish ever.
Milgram's experiment is rightly famous, but does it show what we think it does?
As the American population grows, fewer people will die of cancer.
An artist’s impression of what the fully-deployed James Webb Space telescope will look like from the perspective of an observer on the ‘dark’ (non-Sun-facing) side of the observatory. (NORTHRUP GRUMMAN) […]
China has reached a new record for nuclear fusion at 120 million degrees Celsius.
A new study suggests that reports of the impending infertility of the human male are greatly exaggerated.
A year of disruptions to work has contributed to mass burnout.
Buildings don't have to be permanent — modular construction can make them modifiable and relocatable.
An early feasibility study finds a potential new treatment for Alzheimer's disease.
Vaccines can be grown in and extracted from the leaves of plants.
Three of our dimensions are spatial and one is temporal, but could there be more? From any point in space, you are free to move in any direction you choose. No […]
The following is an excerpt from Viruses, Pandemics, and Immunity by Arup K. Chakraborty and Andrey S. Shaw. Reprinted with Permission from The MIT PRESS. Copyright 2021. Koch’s Postulates, Anthrax, […]
A cartogram makes it easy to compare regional and national GDPs at a glance.
Despite the enormous flood of recent reports, there’s no good evidence for a lab leak. At the very end of 2019, a new disease began to emerge in humans: COVID-19. Originally […]
Asking science to determine what happened before time began is like asking, "Who were you before you were born?"
According to this research, eight percent of Americans always refuse vaccines. Why?
A well-known psychology trick called the "rubber hand illusion" could be useful for treating patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
With 5,000 square degrees of data, the Dark Energy Survey has something important to say. For as long as humans have been studying the Universe, we’ve yearned to know the answers […]
When does a healthy desire for wealth morph into greed? And how can we stop it?