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Cosmology -- Ho'oleilana, a Billion-Light-Year-Wide Bubble of Galaxies, Astounds Astronomers
18 hours ago
Engineering -- Streetlights Are Mysteriously Turning Purple. Here's Why15 hours ago
Particle Physics -- What Happens if You Drop Antimatter? New Gravitational Test Sees First Fall17 hours ago
Climate Change - Pangaea Ultima, the Next Supercontinent, May Doom Mammals to Far-Future Extinction - 250 million years from now, the emergence of a new supercontinent could render most of Earth's surface uninhabitable for mammals - Jonathan O'Callaghan and Nature magazine11 hours ago
Geology -- Dead Trees and a Mysterious Cosmic Explosion Reveal Bigger Quake Risk for Seattle14 hours ago
Quantum Physics -- To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past18 hours ago
Basic Chemistry -- The Chemistry behind Bourbon18 hours ago
Genetics -- The Complete Human Y Chromosome Marks an Opportunity to Move Away from Stigma18 hours ago
Consciousness -- Is Consciousness Part of the Fabric of the Universe? -- Physicists and philosophers recently met to debate a theory of consciousness called panpsychism -- Dan Falk15 hours ago
Astronomy -- The Loss of Dark Skies Is So Painful, Astronomers Coined a New Term for It -- Astronomers have a new term to describe the pain associated with the loss of access to dark skies: noctalgia -- Paul Sutter and SPACE.com17 hours ago
Astronomy -- The Equinox Is Not What You Think It Is -- The equinox is not when day and night have equal lengths. Instead it's something more nuanced but no less glorious -- Phil Plait4 days ago
Diet -- 'Budget Ozempic' Weight-Loss Trend Raises Safety Concerns -- The new social media trend budget Ozempic promotes laxatives and stool softeners for weight loss, but these drugs are dangerous if misused -- Nial Wheate, Jessica Pace and The Conversation US9 days ago
Climate Change -- Our Fragile Earth: How Close Are We to Climate Catastrophe? -- Lessons from past eras when Earth was a hothouse or a snowball tell us whether we are doomed by climate change or still have time to prevent that fate -- Mark Fischetti17 hours ago
Consciousness -- Prominent Consciousness Theory Is Slammed as Bogus Science -- Researchers publicly call out theory that they say is not well supported by science, but that gets undue attention -- Mariana Lenharo and Nature magazine1 day ago
The Science of School and Education27 days ago
Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom27 days ago
Why Kids Are Afraid to Ask for Help27 days ago
Teaching about Racism Is Essential for Education27 days ago
Reading for Pleasure Helps Kids' Brain Development22 days ago
Inequality - The Father of Environmental Justice Reflects on the Movement He Helped to Start - Four decades into his activism, Robert Bullard looks back on his legacy and the work ahead. September 19, 20237 days ago
Pollution -- The Ozone Hole Showed Humans Could Damage Earth and That We Could Heal It8 days ago
Animals -- These Salamanders Steal Genes and Can Have up to Five Extra Sets of Chromosomes15 days ago
Black Holes -- Listen to the Astonishing 'Chirp' of Two Black Holes Merging1 month ago
Pollution -- Will the Chesapeake Bay Become a Dead Zone?3 months ago
Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark19 hours ago
Song of the Stars, Part 1: Transforming Space into Symphonies2 days ago
This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bombs--And Found Grim Clues That the Forest Is Dying1 day ago
Should You Get a Blood Test For Alzheimer's?7 days ago
Ada Limón's Poem for Europa, Jupiter's Smallest Galilean Moon9 days ago