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Stock markets may be plummeting, but that doesn't mean the spread of COVID-19 is hurting everyone's bottom line.
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A black hole punched a hole 15 Milky Ways across in a galaxy cluster’s gas, by far the largest ‘kaboom’ ever seen. The Universe, everywhere we look, is full of cataclysmic […]
Can the American government stop coronavirus spread? Its past actions speak volumes.
Ever smell a durian fruit? Don't. Think of it as nature's stinky battery.
Not everything needs a medium to travel through. If we can overcome that assumption, we don’t need the aether at all. All throughout the Universe, different types of signals propagate. Some […]
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The Black Death skipped certain parts of Europe - and that could be a lesson for today's coronavirus epidemic
A computer coder and a lawyer decide they have a right to speak for all the songwriters that ever lived, those who are alive today, and all those yet to be born.
The oldest known cave-dwelling arthropods have been discovered preserved in amber.
There are scientifically proven ways you can improve your self-esteem, right now.
It’s not a lack of motivation, intelligence, or capability. Here’s how to open a space. Over the past 20 years, the number of bachelor’s degrees awarded in physics has more than […]
These people had no access to magazines and, generally, no access to the internet.
It isn’t just a day that comes every four years; it’s everything we need to keep our calendar aligned with Earth’s orbit. Once every four years, at least under most circumstances, […]
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