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A mile-high tower would not just be a new structure, but a new technology.
Scientists have detected within the Venusian atmosphere a chemical known to be a byproduct of life.
'Kanal Istanbul' would create a second Bosporus – and immortalize its creator.
Have any of the stars we can see burned themselves out completely? When we look out across the Universe, we’re also peering back in time. In the early 21st-century, we’ve […]
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Does time exist? Here's what the debate is all about.
The major temples seem much more interesting than what also appears on the landscape: apparently random mounds of earth.
Christians and Muslims that pick out unconscious patterns are more likely to believe in a god.
Why a survey claims Boomers demonstrate more knowledge and safer behavior.
New prototype Petri dishes let ordinary scientists in on the advanced technology.
Rocks from two hundred million years ago show us how everything died and how nothing is new.
Black holes are the darkest objects of all. But are they made of dark matter? When it comes to the Universe, few objects are more compelling, fascinating, or extreme than black […]
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Virtual reality is more than a trick. It's a solution to big problems.
Symptoms of mental illness in children are often dismissed as "going through a phase."
An active component of honeybee venom rapidly killed two particularly aggressive forms of breast cancer in a laboratory study.
The neurodevelopmental disorder has long baffled researchers.
The images were published in the New England Journal of Medicine and show how prolific coronavirus can become in a mere four days.
Can we affirm everything in life, the beauty and the suffering? Nietzsche says yes.
When two black holes that shouldn’t exist are seen merging, physics has some explaining to do. After years of searching for gravitational waves, it finally happened: LIGO bagged the biggest one […]
Targeting a signaling pathway in mice helped them retain muscle and bone mass aboard the International Space Station, according to a new study.
A new study bases its calculations on more than the great white shark.