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The UK government has announced its intention to form a new research agency for high risk, high reward science and…

What? This looks just like the forces for the balloon? OK, it does look similar—but there is a big difference.…

“I can do a bit of mind reading when I teach people to juggle,” Wolf said, “and I can tell…

Let’s imagine that you are in a car with no windows. I know that’s crazy, but just hold on. Although…

Archaeologists in Egypt are preparing to open a 3,000-year-old burial shaft at the Saqqara necropolis, south of Cairo, in the…

Let’s just check this solution real quick. What about the units? On the left, tension is in units of Newtons.…

Maybe the question isn’t why the aggregates form in disease, but why they don’t form in healthy cells. “One of…

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 2014, Burlington, Vermont, the birthplace…

Uncrewed submarines have been diving into the hadal zone for decades, but Brennan Phillips, an ocean engineer at the University…

Growing up as a shark can be tough. You not only have to worry about being eaten while still inside…