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Whistleblower allegations that the government possesses UFOs may not be backed up by public physical evidence, but some…
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A new survey catalogs Americans’ expectations about the future of space, from NASA to SpaceX. Two space policy experts…
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Fighting misinformation doesn’t have to involve restricting content or dampening people’s enthusiasm for sharing it.…
If an astronaut were to die on Mars, neither cremation nor burial would be good options.
All who testified before a congressional subcommittee claimed that UFOs pose a threat to national security, though there’s…
People often privately feel uncomfortable about bad behavior they see around them but mistakenly believe their peers don’t…
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Fragile X syndrome is the most common inherited form of intellectual disability. Using short bits of DNA to fix improperly…
The way particles interacted while the universe was forming seconds after the Big Bang could explain why the universe exists…
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Horses and humans share biological similarities that lead them to suffer from similar endocrine and orthopedic diseases.…