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Traditional Chinese medicine and Vietnamese culture are driving the pangolin to extinction.
As air pollution increases, so does violent crime.
The Kazungula Bridge connects Zambia and Botswana, barely missing Namibia and Zimbabwe.
And either way, is energy or information conserved? When two things in the Universe that “always” occur meet one another, how do you know which one will win? Gravitational waves, […]
Climate change and artificial intelligence pose substantial — and possibly existential — problems for humanity to solve. Can we?
New research shines a light on the genetics of sudden cardiac deaths.
A new device cured the hiccups 92 percent of the time in a recent study involving more than 200 participants.
How slight differences could have forever changed our cosmic history. 13.8 billion years ago, what we know today as our Universe began with the hot Big Bang. Filled with matter, antimatter […]
Cross-disciplinary cooperation is needed to save civilization.
An analysis of the gravitational wave data from black hole mergers show that the event horizon area, and entropy, always increases.
As a form of civil disobedience, hacking can help make the world a better place.
Is the Universe the same everywhere? Or are there truly ‘special places’ around? For practically all of human history, one assumption about our place in the Universe had long gone unchallenged: […]
It could lead to a massive uptake in those previously hesitant.
Geologists discover a rhythm to major geologic events.
Researchers discovered a galactic wind from a supermassive black hole that sheds light on the evolution of galaxies.
Life is governed by unspoken rules. How do you know you're following them correctly?
Filaments, hundreds of millions of light-years long, were just caught spinning. In our own cosmic backyard, everything we see spins, rotates, and revolves in some fashion or other. Our planet […]
If computers can beat us at chess, maybe they could beat us at math, too.
Laughing gas may be far more effective for some than antidepressants.
How one startup plans to use "death rays" for good instead of evil.