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Moving from HOT to HAT, a dazzling new acoustic technology.
A new study flies in the face of anecdotal evidence and raises questions about how we read data.
"This is a great example of a forest restoration plan which is both good for the people and good for nature," one researcher said.
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The most powerful editors in the world? Algorithms.
It will be the most extreme test of Einstein’s General Relativity ever. And we already have the data. With every year that goes by, the total amount of knowledge that humanity […]
Synthesizing the vast research in the scientific study of religion is a huge task.
The findings of the controversial study flew in the face of past research on ice gains in Antarctica.
"We must end the needless and unjust convictions and the debilitating criminal stigma and let's legalize the adult use of recreational use of marijuana once and for all," the governor said.
A new study from Nvidia researchers show just how far artificial image-generation technology has come in recent years.
Explore the many different iterations and times of New Year's celebrations around the world.
The discovery could potentially bush pack the evolution of feathers on vertebrates by 70 million years.
Decades of studies have shown parents to be less happy than their childless peers. But are the kids to blame?
Cryptocurrencies have had their time in the spotlight. Now it's time to focus on solving bigger problems.
The Belgian psychotherapist has a lot to teach us.
In Well Grounded, behavioral neuroscience professor Kelly Lambert says it's all about contingency planning.
It isn't mind over matter as much as mind properly working with matter.
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Dialogue and an open mind can go a lot further than angry rhetoric.
With thousands of discovered planets around stars beyond our own Sun, why haven’t we found the next Earth? Over the past 30 years, astronomers have gone from zero known extra-solar planets […]
A theory from cosmology claims the Universe could rip apart to shreds.
Researchers find an amazing amount of often-weird forms of life below the planet's surface.