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By Dr. Ellen Stefan NASA Chief Scientist “Sweet Moon,” William Shakespeare wrote in A Midsummer Night’s Dream,...
This 119 million year old fish, Rhacolepis, is the first fossil to show a 3D preserved heart...
The Morris Loeb Lecture in Physics and The Black Hole Initiative Inauguration. Stephen Hawking (pictured) delivers a...
On Sept. 14, waves of energy traveling for more than a billion years gently rattled space-time in...
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These Second Life characters could form part of a fulfilling retirement. HyacintheLuynes By Dr. Bob De Schutter...
By David Alexander Marques PhD Student, Department of Fish Ecology and Evolution University of Bern and Eawag,...
Photo Mark Cartwright By Cristian Violatti PhD Candidate, University of Leicester DEFINITION The term science comes from...
By Hilda Bastian Academic Editor PLOS Medicine PLOS Journals If you didn’t believe a prevailing scientific position, you used...
An artist’s concept of another triple-star system. (NASA/JPL-Caltech) From Rachel Feltman at The Washington Post / 04.04.2016...
By Dr. Michael Ben-Avie / 04.01.2016 Southern Connecticut State University The outlook is often bleak for young...
Arctic sea ice was at a record low wintertime maximum extent for the second straight year. At...
Mangrove patch in the arid landscape of Baja California Peninsula, Mexico. Octavio Aburto / iLCP, Author provided...
We need to figure out a better way to communicate science that balances technology and nature. Illustration...
From Kavita Iyer at TechWorm / 03.02.2016: Scientists at HRL Information and System Sciences Laboratory in California...
Why scientists believe what they do, and why the public too often doesn’t go along Elias Chasiotis...
Opponents of evolution want to make a place for creationism by tearing down real science, but their...
Climatologist James Hansen on the Eleuthera coastal ridge on Nov. 22, 2015, in Eleuthera, Bahamas. (Charles Ommanney...
A man at at a New York rally calling for action on climate change, a day before...
Psychologists find that distrust of authority and low agreeableness are among factors underlying the willingness to believe...
Putting on the Indego. Credit: Parker Hannifin Corporation/Flickr. Indego is the result of 10 years of development by engineers...
Soon to be vanquished? Nano Art Ltd/Science Photo Library From New Scientist: From superbug to… bug. Newly...
Image NOAA From Jonathan Baker, doctoral candidate geoscience, Christian: How do we know the Earth is older...
Photo: Ove Hermansen, NILU From Trude Pettersen at The Independent Barents Observer, “The levels of methane increased...