To find out if we discriminate against people with foreign-sounding names an experiment with fictional girls…
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Clock-like precision of pulsars opens new window for studying gravitational waves
A team of European astronomers, along with Indian and Japanese colleagues, has reported evidence that strongly…
Artificial neural network study explains why biting flies are attracted to blue objects
A small international team of life scientists has discovered why biting flies are attracted to things…
Cosmological models are built on a simple, century-old idea, but new observations demand a radical rethink
Our ideas about the universe are based on a century-old simplification known as the cosmological principle.…
How the use of chemicals and biodiversity loss are connected
Declining biodiversity threatens the very basis of human life. Science contends that there are many reasons…
Our brains are hardwired to believe lies and conspiracy theories, says researcher
In “Politics, Lies and Conspiracy Theories,” Marcel Danesi Ph.D., a professor of semiotics and linguistic anthropology…
The Mars Sample Return mission is starting to look expensive
Getting to space is hard. It’s even more hard to do new and interesting things in…
Webb identifies the earliest strands of the cosmic web
Galaxies are not scattered randomly across the universe. They gather together not only into clusters, but…
Researcher calls for new approach to combating transnational sexual exploitation of children
Sexual exploitation of children abroad: the Dutch government calls on its citizens to not look away…
A new species of mosquito found in Finland, official count of species now at 44
A species of mosquito not previously recorded from Finland has been discovered in the coastal municipality…