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NTNU researchers may have found the answer to one of the big, unanswered questions in physics. The universe is full of ...

(via SciShow) Are you old enough for your childhood to be filled with the threat of acid rain? Are you now thinking "Wait, why haven't I heard about the threat of acid rain in forever?". Well it's ...

As rates of depression and suicide in youth spike, experts are asking whether social media makes kids depressed — or whether ...

Many grooves and dimples on the surface of the brain are unique to humans, but they’re often dismissed as an uninteresting ...

Across the globe, water scarcity is no longer a distant concern—it’s a present and growing crisis. Today, more than 2.3 ...

Many atheists consider themselves to be highly rational people who rate evidence and analytical thinking above religion, ...

We’ve all felt the sting of guilt when fruit and vegetables go bad before we could eat them. Now, researchers from MIT and the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART) have sho ...

A new study shows that our ability to recall details about familiar objects, like a banana’s typical color, depends on strong ...

Sets of metabolites found in blood and urine reliably correspond with how much energy from ultra-processed food a person ...

By combining information from many large datasets, MIT researchers have identified several new potential targets for treating ...

Clambering through the bush on one of Indonesia’s Lesser Sunda Islands, suddenly you spy a Komodo dragon in the clearing ahead. Forked tongue flickering; sharp, saw-like teeth glimme ...