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Seth Millstein is a writer and musician living in the Bay Area. He has helped launch several early-stage journalism startups, ...
Chinese scientists now have access to the world's most powerful hypergravity facility. Every time an astronaut returns from ...
The ambitious and top secret project was supposed to withstand a first strike by the Soviet Union, but it ultimately couldn't ...
Zooming in on the auditory cortex, the researchers found three unique sets of neurons that light up while we listen to music.
With less than 10% of global plastic recycled and the rest wreaking havoc on ecosystems, a team of Japanese scientists has ...
Orcas have been observed launching synchronized attacks hunting whale sharks for the first time.
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Physicists have now visualized the shape of a photon—the smallest unit of light—using a novel theoretical model. These ...
CT-Scans use Röntgen radiation, known as X-rays -- they penetrate through most materials and are captured by a special film ...
"The Alliance to End Plastic Waste promised a $1.5 billion solution to plastic pollution. Five years later, it’s cleaned up ...