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We’ve come so far since 2015; what do we know about dark matter now that we didn’t know then? Back in 2015, the dark matter situation was pretty straightforward: the large-scale […]
A once-impossible new technique creates fusion energy with powerful lasers and without radioactive fuel.
Cute things are usually vulnerable, fragile, and weak. But cuteness itself is mighty indeed.
Many participants smoked and drank, and enjoyed the benefits of health and longevity anyway.
Evolution has trained your mind to create in-groups and out-groups in a flash—but the lines are more flexible than you think.
A new study in mice shows that fasting increases BDNF, a protein that promotes the growth of neuronal connections.
How bloody was Australia's colonial history? Two mapping projects reveal the horrible truth
How do you get so massive so fast? The answer could be a big problem for our standard picture of cosmology. Out in the extreme distances of the Universe, the […]
This could lead to new pain relievers that mute the sensation without increasing the risk of addiction.
Stanford researchers identify five different types of anxiety, each correlating with the activation of different brain networks.
Here it is. Your moment of Comment. Did you make the cut this week?
All the answers may lie at the center of a “regular” black hole.
Life never ceases to surprise, even when faced with the unforgiving environment of space.
Mathematicians argue in a new paper that the accelerating expansion of the universe can be explained without dark energy.
Existentialism is great and all, but how can you really relate to the ideas if you don't think God is dead? Luckily, we've got just the thing.
Nietzsche's ideas were used by the Nazi's to justify their atrocities, but did Nietzsche actually support Fascism?
Instead of nearly-circular ellipses, comets are extraordinarily elongated, or even on an exit path. Why so different? When you look at how the planets orbit in our Solar System, the […]
Researchers are studying the use of sperm cells as micromotors for delivering chemotherapy to cervical cancer patients.
If December’s best natural sky show seems to get better every year, it isn’t your imagination. It’s science, and it’s spectacular! Every year, the Earth travels some 940 million kilometers […]