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Robby Berman
Contributing Writer
I’m a writer, musician, and father living in central New York with my wife, two daughters, one dog, two cats, and countless questions. I’m especially interested in animal rights, creativity, politics, the nature of things and time, and in making a worthwhile contribution. You can follow me @everyrobby.
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A simple trick allowed marine biologists to prove a long-held suspicion.
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Even with six months' notice, we can't stop an incoming asteroid.
Roughly the size of a thumbnail, this newly discovered toadlet has some anatomical surprises.
New machine-learning algorithms from Columbia University detect cognitive impairment in older drivers.
The size of rabbits and hares has long been evolutionarily constrained by competitors roughly their size.
A study from Carnegie Mellon University tracks the travels of tarantulas since the Cretaceous period.
How can researchers map something as complex as the human brain?
A study finds that sexual regret doesn't change how we behave in the future.
About 359 million years ago, at the end of the last phase of the Devonian period, there was a mass extinction event or series of events. An estimated 70 to […]
The EmDrive turns out to be the "um..." drive after all, as a new study dubs any previous encouraging EmDrive results "false positives."
Researchers find that the coffee pulp is valuable in its own right.
We can't ask them, so scientists have devised an experiment.
A new study makes a compelling case for the origin of unexplained masses of underground rock causing changes to the Earth's magnetic field.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago find that death triggers increased activity in certain brain cells.
Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.
The bird demonstrates cutting-edge technology for devising self-folding nanoscale robots.
Scans show similar activity to what occurs when you think about yourself.