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Coloured engraving from Joseph Racknitz’s 1789 pamphlet which attempted to reveal the secret workings of William Kempelen’s...
Understanding the cocktail of chemicals that fuel our consciousness By Jacob Devaney / 04.28.2016 As we dive...
© Gustav Almestå Losing your sense of smell takes away more than scents and flavours – it...
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From Will S. at TheLiteracySite.com: For most, the love of books starts in childhood. For others, this...
By Dr. Julie Robinson International Space Station Chief Scientist Collecting data before, during and after the mission...
Cranium of Sahelanthropus tchadensis: a 7 million year old member of the human evolutionary lineage from Chad....
Are you normal? What does it mean to be normal? Is it a good thing, or does...
An epidemiologist examines the sample taken from a patient thought to be infected with influenza A (H1N1)...
Electrical brain ‘signatures’. The patient to the left is in a vegetative state; the patient in the...
04.28.2016 Astronomers have used data from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s Planck and a large list of...
Karl Popper / Creative Commons Falsifiability, as defined by the philosopher, Karl Popper, defines the inherent testability...
© Adam Batchelor The human brain is special. Just not that special. To understand animal minds, and...
© Lightning + Kinglyface and Jess Bonham Most of us would rather not think about what happens...
“It felt like a sabbatical from my normal life to get up to speed on science,” says...
© Adam Batchelor If we met new life – on this planet or the next – would...
This Earth Day, NASA is giving the world an insider’s look into the myriad activities the space...
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...