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More humans are being born with a third arm artery, an example of microevolution happening right before our eyes.
eagle nebula stars
Even though the leftover glow from the Big Bang creates a bath of radiation at only 2.725 K, some places in the Universe get even colder.
The serotonin theory of depression started to be widely promoted in the 1990s, coinciding with a push to prescribe more SSRIs.
instructional design models
There are dozens of instructional design models, but most learning designers rely on a select few. Here are four of the most common.
From Amazon to the US Army, everybody wants one (or 150).
The costs of such an endeavor would be extremely high, while the potential payoffs would be uncertain.
NicoBoard is an app that helps parents make sense of a frightening time.
It’s not a huge leap to imagine we could target the biological processes that mediate our behaviours.
Deliveries of the $250k Lightyear 0 will start in November 2022.
Cement production currently accounts for 8% of global carbon emissions.
More than 20% Americans live in a state with access to a medically assisted death.
MIRI
Take a peek at the pre-release images used to calibrate and commission JWST's coldest instrument, now ready for full science operations.
salton sea
A team of scientists hopes deep-earth lithium could sustain America's vast demand for batteries. But extracting it won't be easy.
length of day
The length of a day oscillates slightly every six years. This was a surprising discovery made last decade. We might now know why.
Livestock now outweighs wild mammals and birds ten-fold.
night vision
Deep learning AI has accurately created color images from night vision images.
Scientists have found three new examples of a very exotic form of matter made of quarks. They can yield insights into the early Universe.
Myrkl (pronounced "miracle") is supposed to let you go wild without facing the consequences the next day. But does it actually work?
alien contact
The psychology of alien contact largely revolves around the concept of "otherness." We need to learn to be comfortable around strange things.