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Dark matter doesn’t seem to interact with the matter we can see and touch, so scientists look for it in unusual places,…
A research team has paved plastic-infused roads in Texas and Bangladesh, with promising results.
All species alive today, from chimpanzees to bacteria, are cousins that each have equally long lineages, rather than ancestors…
While physical exertion helps athletes stay warm, sweating can lead to dehydration.
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Following the app’s sale, the company’s updated privacy policy and terms of service set off alarm bells. The reaction…
Athletes will use physics concepts such as friction and lift to their advantage on the world stage in the 2026 Olympic Games.
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Approaching heart failure like an autoimmune condition could offer new ways to improve patient survival.
Federal immigration agents tend to receive less training on how to properly deploy crowd-control weapons, research finds.
Women have moved from mapmakers using their bodies to depict maps to being leaders shaping the field of cartography.
Priming people to watch out for political deepfakes helps them question the AI-generated videos.
Armed with new tools that reveal patterns of connection between brain areas, researchers are gaining clearer insights into…
Social inequalities emerge in every human society. New research into how these hierarchies form suggests ‘prestige psychology’…
Several robotic spacecraft orbiting the Moon can take detailed pictures of its surface, so why send people around the Moon?…
3D printing makes it easier for engineers to design cheap, lightweight materials that reflect patterns found in nature.
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Here’s why some people believe we’re living in a computer simulation of reality – like a giant video game in which…