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What's to blame for the recent uptick in containership accidents?
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Philosophers, theoretical physicists, psychologists, and others consider what or who is really in control.
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago find that death triggers increased activity in certain brain cells.
Scalars, vectors, and tensors come up all the time in science. But what are they? One of the major goals of science is to describe our reality as accurately as possible. […]
Results from an experiment using the Large Hadron Collider challenges the accepted model of physics.
Not only does this give us a look at the scaffolding of the universe, we found some new galaxies too!
75 years after Erwin Schrödinger's prescient description of something like DNA, we still don't know the "laws of life."
Humans are more likely to have "first contact" with an advanced alien civilization, according to a recent NASA-funded paper.
How do you get usable phosphorus into a system? A new study suggests lightning can do the trick.
James Gillray's 'plumb-pudding' caricature is "probably the most famous political cartoon of all time."
At first blush, the damages done by sexual harassment seem obvious. Make that incredibly obvious. Such behavior exposes our organizations to legal consequences and the subsequent financial fallout. And in […]
Is a proton fundamentally more ‘quarky’ or ‘gluey’ in nature? One question that every curious child winds up asking at some point or other is, “what are things made of?” Every […]
Two new studies examine ways we could engineer human wormhole travel.
A new study explores how using positive labels to describe a majority group may negative impact perceptions of minority groups.
After years of speculation a team of researchers has pinpointed the age of this ancient mystery.
Here are the best answers science has to a myriad of commonly asked questions. Over the past 12 months, the status of humans on planet Earth has changed dramatically. The […]
The European currency features buildings that didn't exist, until Spijkenisse made them in concrete
Digitized logbooks from the 1800s reveal a steep decline in strike rate for whalers.
In recent years, women have made incredible strides in the business world. Forty-one women currently lead Fortune 500 companies. While that remains an unacceptably low percentage (8 percent) overall, it […]