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The answer is surprisingly simple, if cataclysmic.
What if all planets were the same distance from Earth as the Moon?
Geologists may have spotted evidence of the beginning stages of a subduction zone, a process that drives the movement of Earth’s tectonic plates.
Light exists outside of time.
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All life as we know it relies on carbon and water. But researchers speculate this doesn’t have to be the case.
A tiny grain found within a meteorite in Antarctica sheds light on how the solar system itself came to be.
A space memorial company plans to launch the ashes of “Pikachu,” a well-loved Tabby, into space.
What do the inventions of the future look like?
The team caught a glimpse of a process that takes 18,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 years.
Psychopaths are manipulative, violent, impulsive, and lack empathy — but if psychopathy encourages more frequent reproduction, is it, then, an advantageous strategy?
A new method promises to capture an elusive dark world particle.
Famous inventors and scientists submission to the daily grind
An innovation may lead to lifelike evolving machines.
The map shows the movements of seven different wolves over the course of a season.
A new experiment shows that two observers can experience divergent realities (if they go subatomic).
It’s often said that every element was made in a star, but there’s more to it than that.
There are places in our solar system where you can fly.
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Doctors may be able to painlessly reshape cartilage with the technique.
Artistic depictions of the atom have deceived us all.
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They may be using an “air bridge” to do so.
A new computer model solves a pair of Jovian riddles.
Melting ice is turning up bodies on Mt. Everest. This isn’t as shocking as you’d think.
It’s one of the most consistent patterns in the unviverse. What causes it?
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They didn’t know it, but the rituals of Iron Age Scandinavians turned their iron into steel.
How can we use the resources that are already on the Moon to make human exploration of the satellite as economical as possible?