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The idea that the seeds of life may have originated on another planet is far from new, but is there any value to it?
“If dark matter is a wave, then it's just oscillating up and down, so the way you try and detect it is you look for that oscillation, just like we looked for the oscillation of the axial quasiparticle ...
Since the start of the century, there has been a significant decline in people attending religious institutions, but does this reflect a decline in belief?
S ome years seem to zip by in the blink of an eye, while others seem to drag on for far longer. But some, like leap years, ...
According to various sources, running uphill on a treadmill is easier than running on an actual hill. This seems to make a bit of intuitive sense, as on a treadmill you might thin ...
In other words, most people who don’t have children have made that decision on purpose, rather than wanting children but being unable to have them for some reason. It’s a group that’s growing in size, ...
It can be a vicious cycle. Burdened by the belief that you don’t belong where you’ve ended up, you overwork yourself, aiming ...
"There has been a bewildering array of different ecological roles for crocodylomorphs, from terrestrial herbivores and ...
Dr Matthew Taylor from Augusta University set out to analyze and classify a series of relics made from human bone that had ...
As it turns out, we tend towards the same cognitive errors with coin flips. Despite being pretty much the iconic example of ...
"Crucially, however, the highest proportion of species classified as Near Threatened or more vulnerable to extinction on the ...
In a testament to the crows’ intelligence (or perhaps just the deliciousness of mealworms), the birds all caught on ...