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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 […]
Bill Moyers once said that a benefit of being a journalist is learning in public. This relies on two important skills: An ability to ask good questions and the willingness […]
It’s absolutely true that atoms are mostly empty space. But removing even that empty space is impossible, and this is why. If you were to take any object in the Universe […]
The NICER experiment, designed to measure neutron stars as never before, just released their first pulsar map, and it’s amazing. After typical supernovae, remnant collapsed cores of matter are left behind. […]
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Man's best friend indeed.
The noted astronomer and author Carl Sagan came up with a famous dictum acronymed ECREE.
Dr. Charles Grob was the first researcher granted FDA approval to study these drugs.
Clinical studies are underway. How we treat them moving forward matters.
How the phenomenon of time dilation became very real to me … at a monastery.