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About 8% of our genome is made of leftover viruses from our ancestors' infections.
Overwintering is profoundly stressful for trees. So why do they bother?
We know the Universe is expanding, but scientists don't agree on the rate. This is a legitimate problem.
Using physics, Ross Chastain floored it during the final turn, scraping the wall and passing 5 cars to advance to the NASCAR championship.
Antibodies can start forming in intestines over 10 years before symptoms arise.
Your very own "Conspiracy Detection Kit."
Their neurons are very different from "normal" people.
It's time for Tetris.
The largest hazardous asteroid found in the last 8 years showcases a little-known class of planet-killers. And we're woefully unprepared.
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Jimena Canales shares the “demons” that shaped computer science.
One possible vision of the distant future.
Studying neuroscience through art.
Some patients wait over 5 years for a liver transplant.
In 1974, Stephen Hawking showed that even black holes don't live forever, but emit radiation and eventually evaporate. Here's how.
The “scientific Buddha” and the idea of Buddhist exceptionalism with regard to science are modern creations.
In 1995, Hubble peered at the Pillars of Creation, forever changing our view. Now in 2022, JWST completes the star-forming puzzle.
Organic molecules can be produced by living or non-living systems. But the recent findings are very intriguing.
If you want to share the truths about our Universe with others, don't fall into the trap of arguing with a misinformer. Do this instead.
The stars circle each other every 51 minutes, confirming a decades-old prediction.
Most exoplanets have been found around single stars via the transit method. But binary star systems might contain even more of them.
Inspired by the shape of a New Caledonian crow’s beak, researchers created a new 3D-printed prototype of tweezers.
All American and European eels originate in the same place.
Early relics and late-time objects give incompatible results for the expanding Universe. This independent anomaly intensifies the problem.
More than any other nation, Japan tends to feel comfortable with the idea of humanoid robots entering the home.
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
Oxytocin can boost heart cells' ability to regenerate.
Quantum entanglement may remain spooky, but it has a very practical side.
Many suspicious deaths of both humans and pets have been solved with the help of insects.
Practically all of the matter we see and interact with is made of atoms, which are mostly empty space. Then why is reality so... solid?
From Aristotle's lazy cosmology to Immanuel Kant's "scientific" racism, great minds are not immune to very bad ideas.