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Mother Nature and the laws of physics have a death warrant out for humanity, says Michio Kaku. Can we escape it?
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Check out these mysterious optical illusions that affect our visual perception.
A large new study pinpoints a technique to achieving better grades and success in life.
The first human-monkey hybrid has allegedly been created in a Chinese lab.
The premier hospitals tend to have the most superbugs — they also have the best experts.
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Stargazing is a form of time travel.
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Stargazing is a form of time travel.
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Someday we’ll beam to the moon for afternoon tea, and be back in New York for dinner.
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If philosophers don’t try to mesh their long-held views with new scientific insights, then we have a problem.
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What you eat — and when — can make you superhuman.
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Tiny glassy beads called microtektites were found in fossilized shell remains.
Eric Weinstein says that we need to rethink the current scientific model to allow for more dreaming.
Going back to the moon will give us fresh insights about the creation of our solar system.
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She may not be ours forever.
“It is almost impossible to put into words the difference that Alan Turing made to society.”
LSD may help us change our lives by spurring perspective shifts.
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Twain and Tesla had similar passions and an amusing friendship.
Here’s what neuroscience and psychology have to say about how people humanize and dehumanize one another.
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Soon we’ll be able to blink and instantly go online via computer chips attached to our eyes.
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The resistance movements may be more about identity than science.
The more Greenland melts, the more Greenland melts. Here’s why.
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Here are just two of the practical and philosophical crises surrounding biodiversity breakdown.
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It turns out light can not only be twisted, but at different speeds.
Hubble captures the afterglow of an epochal blast.
The recent photo of a black hole is something extraordinary. Here’s why.
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Does God exist? The answer rests outside the “normal” boundaries of science.
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The ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica are remnants of the ice age. They’re also the wild cards of climate science.
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Remembering a 1972 symposium gathering of the world’s greatest physicists.
Future cancer research may come from studying antler growth.
Here’s how we stop a health crisis before it wreaks havoc on us.
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