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The Sahara is a harsh environment today. It used to be much, much, worse.
It’s one way to interpret recent X-ray data, but it conflicts with much, much better data we already have. Earlier this month, a new study came out claiming something shocking: perhaps […]
Johns Hopkins University professor Susan Carnell explains the neuroscience behind eating out of boredom (and how to stop).
Carbon nanotubes embedded in leaves detect chemical signals that are produced when a plant is damaged.
Europe's border closures due to coronavirus go against a fundamental freedom enshrined in the Schengen Agreement.
Researchers decoded the love signals of lizards "spoken" through chemical signals.
With the right technology, we can continue to "flatten the curve," even as we venture out of our homes.
According to researchers at Washington State University, the answer is yes.
We know what effective teaching looks like. Implementing it can change the lives of Americans.
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Its record-holding galaxy is 32 billion light-years away, in a Universe that’s only 13.8 billion years old. On April 24, 2020, humanity celebrates the 30th anniversary of NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope. […]
Billions of dollars have been lost on custom government IT projects that were eventually canceled.
Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means. Imagine, if you can, what it would mean to have a Universe […]
Sexuality is fluid and it's important that people get to define it for themselves.
An overabundance of this particular protein make mice anxious and is found in human OCD patients.
The Data Atlas of the World specialises in simple yet revealing maps of the world.
The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
If confirmed, that's 10 times the official number of infected New Yorkers.
We might live in a quantum Universe, but we’ll violate the principle of relativity if space is discrete. If you try and divide matter into smaller and smaller chunks, you’ll […]