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The rings are raining down onto the planet, and disappearing surprisingly fast. 4.5 billion years ago, our Solar System first formed. Protoplanetary disks, which all solar systems are thought to […]
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Some anxiety is natural, but it doesn't have to control your life.
New research reveals that because of an optical illusion, we've been viewing sperm incorrectly for nearly 350 years.
It doesn't help that Hollywood has cast the 'coder' as a socially challenged, type-first-think-later hacker, inevitably white and male.
Despite unregulated face coverings being highly variable, they do, on average, reduce the spread of the virus.
A new study sheds light on the final supernovae of the Universe.
Pandemic rumors and information overload make separating fact from fancy difficult, putting people's health and lives at risk.
Carbon locked in soils can be emitted by bacteria. Turning up the heat on them releases more carbon.
A study published Friday tested how well 14 commonly available face masks blocked the emission of respiratory droplets as people were speaking.
Sharing QAnon disinformation is harming the children devotees purport to help.
A 71% wet Mars would have two major land masses and one giant 'Medimartian Sea.'
They’re one of the brightest windows into our Universe’s star-forming past. When we look out at the galaxies in the Universe, almost all of them have supermassive black holes at […]
As the Universe ages, will it eventually fade away entirely? The earliest signal we’ve ever directly detected from the Universe comes to us from shortly after the Big Bang: when […]
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Starting and running a business takes more than a good idea and the desire to not have a boss.
After a decade of failed attempts, scientists successfully bounced photons off of a reflector aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, some 240,000 miles from Earth.
Ever wonder how soft hair can dull a steel razor? So did scientists at MIT.
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Don’t miss the summer’s greatest natural sights of all. Some of the natural highlights of our night sky are easy to overlook. Every year, you’ll hear about some of the brightest, […]
Are there innate differences between female and male brains?