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Boys are four times as likely as girls to develop autism. Girls are nearly twice
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Boys are four times as likely as girls to develop autism. Girls are nearly twice
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Scientists can make substantial progress without fully understanding exactly what they're doing.
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"I thought strangers knew who I was and were whispering about me as I walked
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For thousands of years, we puzzled at how far away the Moon was. Today we
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The hunt for the elusive particles continues.
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If you've found yourself befuddled by extraordinary scientific-sounding claims, you're not alone
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For many years, cosmologists have claimed the Universe is 13.8 billion years old. A new
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A Harvard astronomer went to the bottom of the ocean, claiming he recovered alien technology
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All of the matter and radiation we measure today originated in a hot Big Bang
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In one experiment, the Viking landers added water to Martian soil samples. That might have
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Can two planets stably share the same orbit? Conventional wisdom says no, but a look
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In a distant galaxy, a cosmic dance between two supermassive black holes emits periodic flashes
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Michael Faraday's 1834 law of induction was the key experiment behind the eventual discovery
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What are supermassive black holes, how common are they, and how do they grow up
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Get ready for the most peculiar road trip that will help you understand the vastness
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Rocks and minerals don’t simply reflect light. They play with it and interact with
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A cute mathematical trick can "rescale" the Universe so that it isn't actually expanding
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The importance of baby talk.
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Alchemy had its golden age in the 17th century, when it counted Isaac Newton and
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The crisis of the Anthropocene challenges our traditional narratives and myths about humanity's place
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Today, our observable Universe extends for 46 billion light-years in all directions. But early
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There are two types of missing, or "dark" matter: baryonic (made of normal matter) and
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People discovered prehistoric fossils long before Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species." The
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All stars, eventually, run out of fuel and die. Given all the stars we can
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As the Earth spins and wobbles on its axis and revolves elliptically around the Sun
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Back in the 1930s, Fritz Zwicky postulated the existence of dark matter. No one took
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We know that humans are an intelligent species. But this biologist breaks down the intelligence
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From the present day all the way to less than 400 million years after the
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Some processes, like quantum tunneling, have been shown to occur instantaneously. But the ultimate cosmic
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There's an entire Universe out there. So, with all that space, all those planets
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Nothing can escape from a black hole. So where do Hawking radiation, relativistic jets, and
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All biological systems are wildly disordered. Yet somehow, that disorder enables plant photosynthesis to be
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The space telescope's findings challenge the notion of a galaxy brimming with life.
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Each year in mid-August, Earth plows through the debris stream of an enormous comet
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Two fundamentally different ways of measuring the expanding Universe disagree. What's the root cause
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A 1.5-million-year-old hominin bone shows signs that the victim was eaten by
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Cosmology is unlike other sciences. When our view of the Universe changes, so does our
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Whether you call it 10 quintillion, 10 million trillion, or 10 billion billion, it's
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A relatively new interpretation of quantum mechanics asks us to reimagine the process of science
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How fast is the Universe expanding? Two major methods disagree. New JWST data, just released
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We are not the center of the Universe, but life is.
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Ever wonder what would happen if we got sucked into a black hole? Turns out
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A spherical structure nearly one billion light-years wide has been spotted in the nearby
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The first observational evidence showing the Universe is expanding is 100 years old now: in
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By probing the Universe on atomic scales and smaller, we can reveal the entirety of
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Despite the vast number of planets in the Universe, Earth's specific evolutionary history guarantees
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With ~400 billion stars in the Milky Way and 6-20 trillion galaxies overall, that
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Newton thought that gravitation would happen instantly, propagating at infinite speeds. Einstein showed otherwise; gravity
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Three fundamental forces matter inside an atom, but gravity is mind-bogglingly weak on those
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Will we ever unravel the mystery of consciousness? Two academics made a 25-year bet