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From a lab on the Andes to lab on the Moon

Team Killalab collected extremophile cyanobacteria from the farthest reaches of Peru for their experiment destined for the lunar surface.

TeamIndus Foundation

Dec 15

Archaeologists Just Found A Hidden Chamber In The Great Pyramid

But what’s inside the 4,500-year-old room?

Dec 15

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How Layers in a Latte Form

A retired engineer’s accident while making a coffee drink spurred fluid dynamics researchers to study how espresso and milk arrange…

The New York Times

Dec 15

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Artificial intelligence just discovered two new exoplanets

This is what happens when you turn machine learning loose on the cosmos.

Popular Science

Dec 15

Scientist meets media

By Ole Peters, London Mathematical Laboratory

Dec 5

The Life Extension Death Match

Nobel laureates and billionaires fight to sell you what they hope is a longevity pill.

Karen Weintraub

Dec 14

Did meteorites deliver the critical ingredients for life on Earth?

Synthetic biologist Sheref Mansy wonders how life could have emerged in a time before biological mechanisms.

Dec 14

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The Holy Grail of Genetic Engineering

CRISPR-Cas — a gene-editing technique that is far more precise and efficient than any that has come before it — is poised to change the…

Project Syndicate

Dec 14

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The world’s fastest shark is no match for a sack of flaccid hagfish skin

Immense globs of slime are only their second line of defense.

Popular Science

Dec 14

Will the “most complete skeleton ever” transform human origins?

The public unveiling of a remarkable discovery highlights new potential in a changing science

Dec 13

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What to do if you’re in a crowd of panicking people

Basically, don’t panic.

Popular Science

Dec 13

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This tiny South Pacific Island should be dead by now, but it’s still alive and kicking

Scientists want to know why it’s lingering instead of crumbling into the sea.

Popular Science

Dec 13

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Earth’s most mysterious hums, ranked

Our planet makes a lot of sounds, and some of them are spooky.

Popular Science

Dec 11

This animal went extinct twice

John McKenna, Formative Content

World Economic Forum

Dec 11

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We’re scientists who turn hurricanes into music

Can listening to storms help us understand them better?

Popular Science

Dec 11

No Evidence of Canola Oil Causing Alzheimer’s and Dementia

Sensational Misinterpretation of Published Data Creates Concern where None is Warranted

Dec 9

Does a sea of viruses inside our body help keep us healthy?

Study suggests people may absorb 30 billion bacteria-killing viruses every day

Giorgia Guglielmi

Nov 24

Virologists are bad at naming things, but so is everyone else

The name Reoviridae describes a family of viruses, and it is just bad. Unapologetically so. Even by the low standards of virology. When I…

Dec 7

Can Cloned Pigs Save Dying Humans?

Why replacement organs will come from a farm.

Elizabeth Preston

Dec 7

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Astronomers just discovered a supermassive black hole from the dawn of the universe

And it’s much bigger than we expected.

Popular Science

Dec 8

The Chronicles (Part 22)

The Origin of Modern Humans

Dec 6

Candid thoughts on “The Simulation Hypothesis” from Top AI Researchers

I probed AI scientists in a dark room at TITS, a pre NIPS party, on some of their deepest intentions and beliefs.

Danny Hernandez

Dec 5

Earth’s Rotation IS Slowing Down. But More Earthquakes? That’s A Hypothesis, Not A Fact

You don’t have to wait for 2018 to know that it likely won’t be a year with 25+ magnitude 7.0 earthquakes.

Dec 4