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Using the Korea Microlensing Telescope Network (KMTNet), an international team of researchers has discovered that super-Earth ...

Researchers at University of California San Diego found that cigarette smoking continues to decline across the United States, ...

The Andromeda Paradox, originally from Roger Penrose, is a brain-melting thought experiment that brings up the question of ...

(via Veritasium) How a single phone call from a student helped uncover a flaw that nearly toppled Citicorp.

The Ecomodernist Manifesto is a decade-old this year. Ten years go, an interdisciplinary group of scientists and thinkers ...

How Prosperity Evolves was published. In it, prolific science writer Matt Ridley made clear – with copious evidence – that ...

Middle-aged Americans demonstrated some of the highest levels of loneliness in a new study assessing tens of thousands of ...

An authoritative voice with an alarming tone of concern emanates from your television screen, asking, “Did you use (brand ...

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We are deeply disturbed that the White House Office of Management and Budget is contemplating cutting NASA’s science budget by up to 50 percent. Certainly, the space agency needs to modernize an ...