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Astronomers have discovered a previously unknown birthplace of some of the universe’s rarest elements: a giant flare ...

Recently, finance and insurance experts have begun warning that climate change might spell the end of capitalism as we know it. Blind alarmism or reasonable fear? Let’s ...

For almost 60 years, measuring cholesterol levels in the blood has been the best way to identify individuals at high risk of ...

Artificial intelligence-based writing assistants are popping up everywhere – from phones to email apps to social media ...

It's no secret that our waistlines often expand in middle-age, but the problem isn't strictly cosmetic. Belly fat accelerates ...

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

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

Senescent skin cells, often referred to as zombie cells because they have outlived their usefulness without ever quite dying, ...

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 sublime, almost fearful nature of deep time sometimes awes me even more than the kind of distances we routinely discuss in these pages. Yes, the prospect of a 13.8 billion year old cosmos strung ...