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Here's a look at the space agency's astronaut candidate requirements.
There are three possible ways we’ll find alien life. With all of these chances, the only question is which will come first. Given everything humanity has learned about the Universe, it […]
Is obsessive shopping a compulsion, an addiction, or both?
Here's what scientists know about how the virus spreads, and how to avoid contracting it.
OCD sufferers cannot trust past experiences, making the future even harder to manage.
It’s one of only five spacecraft that will exit the Solar System, and the only one we have a chance to aim at another star. Of all the spacecraft ever launched, […]
The video fragment only shows increase in COVID-19 cases, reversing the video's original message to induce panic.
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Don't feel like going out to vote? These ten thinkers have something to tell you.
As the new coronavirus epidemic spreads, more and more people are wearing surgical masks—despite their questionable effectiveness. An anthropologist explores the reasons why.
These are the top advances in technology that will impact the world in the coming decade.
If all forms of energy experience gravitation, then why does dark energy make the expansion accelerate instead of slow down? Of all the revolutionary discoveries that we’ve made about the Universe, […]
People who score highly on the dark triad are vain, callous, and manipulative.
It's the first time scientists have discovered an animal that doesn't perform aerobic respiration.
Preventable deaths for all five leading mortality causes are "consistently higher" in rural communities.
Sure, cosmic inflation has its detractors. But it also has something no alternative possesses: predictions and tests. Perhaps the most compelling part of any remarkable story is its origin: how it […]