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Researchers develop a fungus that kills mites that contribute to honey bee Colony Collapse Disorder.
The number of PhDs has been exceeding the available academic positions since as early as the mid-1990s.
Thomas Baldwin's Airopaidia (1786) includes the earliest sketches of the earth from a balloon.
Hippocrates overturned conventional wisdom and invented modern medicine.
It’s a wild idea, but there’s a way to test it. No matter how far we look out in the Universe, there’s always more “Universe” to see. Even at the extreme […]
Today, it's common knowledge, but it took scientists centuries to figure out.
The treatment is here, but are we ready?
Too few babies — not overpopulation — is likely to be a major problem this century.
And a combination of all three might take us farther than ever. If you want to see the farthest objects in the Universe, you have to know not only where to […]
Must a religious story be confirmed as a true fact to be effective and inspiring?
The helicopter's sixth mission almost went down in disaster.
ExtendNY stretches the Big Apple's gridiron all across the globe – with some bizarre effects
People admire complexity. Many attribute it to the work of superior minds, those with the skills or intelligence to wrangle challenging ideas into a workable—if not always comprehensible—whole. This esteem […]
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
Mastodons, rhinos, and even camels — all in the great state of California.
As droughts threaten water supplies across the planet, some municipalities aim to utilize an untapped resource: sewage water.
Or is ‘new space’ created in between the gaps of the ‘old’ space? It’s been almost 100 years since humanity first reached a revolutionary conclusion about our Universe: space itself doesn’t […]
The last image puts it all in perspective. Compared to what we find in our Solar System, galaxies are truly enormous. The Sun may be 109 times the diameter of […]
