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A photo showing two Alabama police officers bragging about a "homeless quilt" made from confiscated panhandling signs raises questions about the constitutionality of panhandling.
You've likely heard of solar energy, but what is osmotic energy?
Study identifies predictors of which students are likely to do well in education.
Charity and volunteering not only benefit the recipient but help you become happier and healthier in the new year.
Astronomy’s enduring quest is to go farther, fainter, and more detailed than ever before. Here’s the edge of the cosmic frontier. Astronomers have always sought to push back the viewable […]
Russian astrophysicists propose the Casimir Effect causes the universe's expansion to accelerate.
"I've got Santa on the phone and he says he's not coming unless you go to bed now."
Does a person still get to be "the honorable" if they are tossed out for not being honorable?
A 2020 space mission wants to use zero gravity to disable some of the hardest cancers to fight.
A black hole’s event horizon is thought of as the point of no return. But perhaps there are ways back out, after all. Black holes just might be the most extreme […]
European Word Translator: a simple idea adds a cartographic flourish to Google's online translation service
Finding the Higgs boson, gravitational waves, and imaging a black hole’s event horizon were huge. There’s even more to the story. From a scientific point of view, the 2010s have been […]
The racing plane is hoped to be the fastest electric plane in existence.
The 385-million-year-old fossils show that trees evolved modern features millions of years earlier than previously estimated.
Princeton scientists find a new way to control nuclear fusion reactions.
The stereotype of the unfeeling researcher in a lab coat just isn't true.
Somehow, the Universe began with just the right mix of cosmic ingredients to make life possible. It sure doesn’t seem likely. When you take stock of what’s in the Universe on […]
In the middle of a great cosmic void, a single, isolated galaxy persists amidst the darkness. It’s about to get a lot lonelier. Here in our own cosmic backyard, the […]