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Archaeologists believe the bones are as old as 5,000 years and remarkably well preserved.
The European Space Agency is paying millions to a start-up to incinerate a large piece of space junk. Thousands of defunct satellites are still circling the Earth, threatening spacecraft that are...
In the pursuit of surveillance as a service, Jeff Bezos is intent on recording even our moods. How much personal data is too much to give to Amazon?
The notion of resurrecting people as digital entities is becoming less hypothetical. But just because something can be done, doesn’t always mean it should.
A device connected to my heart could save my life. It could also be hacked.
What to do with hundreds of thousands of tonnes of contaminated water?
Researchers have discovered close to a trillion gallons of freshwater hiding off Hawai'i's coast using a new imaging method.
Opinion | A dubious education journal invited me to submit a manuscript that would undergo "rigorous" review. It was far too easy.
Scientists, farmers, and activists are fighting to save the banana industry from collapsing due to a virulent fungal disease called Tropical Race 4.
How climate works, how it's being altered, and what the future can hold
A New York photographer captured stunning footage of this captivating behavior in her backyard
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If we manage to find intelligent life somewhere in the cosmos, then, strange as it may be, at least it will provide evidence that we are not alone in bearing the burden of consciousness.
Ongoing tensions over the rare earth metal are shaping the future of China and Brazil.
Think you’ve got an interesting microbiome? Your body ain’t got nothing on what’s accumulated on Leonardo’s drawings over 500 years.
Food scientists and marketers are creating healthy, plant-based, imitation tuna, crab, and shrimp that look and taste like the real thing. Better yet, switching to faux seafood will help curb our...
Strip clubs, board games, sugar babies, an office coup — and a whole lot of money
Anti-Semitic groups are still flourishing on Facebook
A new species has been discovered in the deep sea by NOAA and TheVast has captured the details to share! The new species is a comb jelly from the waters near Puerto Rico.
Once seen as the future of aviation, seaplanes are now mostly forgotten relics of early aviation. But a new monster seaplane suggests these aquatic aircraft aren’t dead yet.
While Covid-19 might be a major concern for the Antarctic tourist industry, it could be good news for the region itself.
Two vaccines are nearly here—but their unusual storage requirements could deprive the rural areas that need them most. A tech fix might be coming.
When you’re a journalist or club promoter or financier, fraud is always a gamble—you might be publicly disgraced and have your venal misdeeds replayed over and over in Netflix documentaries and...
An evolutionary biologist explains all the things you might get into an argument over
Controlling pollutions through disinfection, rather than preventing them outright, marked a critical feature of the chemical revolution that crested in the 1770s.
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There’s a big difference between knowing how to follow a recipe and knowing how to cook. If you can master the first principles within a domain, you can see much further than those who are just...
The shipping industry's climate impact is large and growing, but a team in Costa Rica is making way for a clean shipping revolution with a cargo ship made of wood.
The ability to stir new life into being, all across the Universe, compels us to ask why life matters in the first place
The people in this story may look familiar, like ones you’ve seen on Facebook or Twitter or Tinder. But they don’t exist. They were born from the mind of a computer, and the technology behind them...
Your plants are dancing throughout the day.
With a new encyclopedia, seekers for intelligent life ask astronomers to reexamine the sky.
Groundbreaking innovations that are making the world better, smarter and a little more fun
Researchers reviewed over 100 tests — and ran one of their own — to find out if pay harms performance on enjoyable tasks. Here’s what they found.
