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Subscribe Sign In | Subscribe Ad-Free Latest News Home Recommended Wednesday, August 12 Tuesday, August 11 Monday, August 10 Sunday, August 9 Saturday, August 8 Friday, August 7 Thursday, August 6 Wednesday, August 5 Set this view as default? Yes No Set this view as default? Yes No Space Force Unveils Plan to Conquer Space George Dvorsky, Gizmodo What Happens If Black Holes Fall Into Wormholes? Charles Q. Choi, Space.com Llama-Inspired Molecule Is Potent Coronavirus Treatment Usha L. McFarling, Stat What to Do When Everyone Is Wrong Ethan Siegel, Forbes Save the Parasites? 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Zachariah Wylde, The Conversation The Dark Side of Being a Female Shark Researcher Catherine Macdonald, Sci Am Coronavirus Pandemic: The Latest Numbers Follow RCScience: Facebook | Twitter | News360 | Email The Latest Research Photosynthetic Hack Boosts Plant Yields and Saves Water University of Illinois Water Can Behave Like a Liquid Crystal Stockholm University Study Predicts Millions of Unsellable Homes Could Upend Market U of Arizona The Arctic May Lose Its Sea Ice by 2035 British Antarctic Survey Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: ’Drawn-on-Skin’ Electronics Are Breakthrough in Wearable Monitors U Houston Healthy Body Copes Well With One-Off Food Binges University of Bath 12 Ways to Drastically Cut Your Dementia Risk Alice Klein, NewSci Brain Benefits of Exercise Can Be Gained With a Single Protein UC-San Francisco More From Real Clear Videos The Coronavirus Is Mutating. Now What? Buzzfeed Can You See Through the Fallacy That Fooled Doctors? Buzzfeed Shark Attack Test- Human Blood vs. Fish Blood Buzzfeed Can You Solve the Cheating Royal Riddle? BuzzfeedSpace Force Unveils Plan to Conquer Space George Dvorsky , Gizmodo The Space Force has released a 64-page military doctrine, explaining why the United States needs to flex its muscles in space and how the... Read More What Happens If Black Holes Fall Into Wormholes? Charles Q. Choi , Space.com Astronomers think they might be able to detect black holes falling into wormholes using ripples in spacetime known as gravitational waves,... Read More Llama-Inspired Molecule Is Potent Coronavirus Treatment Usha L. McFarling , Stat Inspired by a unique kind of infection-fighting antibody found in llamas, alpacas, and other camelids, a research team at the University of... Read More What to Do When Everyone Is Wrong Ethan Siegel , Forbes One of the biggest enemies of scientific truth is the setup of a false dichotomy. For decades, cosmologists argued over how quickly the... Read More Save the Parasites? They’re Endangered, Too Lauren Sommer , NPR They’re wiggly and slimy and live inside the flesh of other animals. Now, scientists are making a new case for why they should be... Read More How the Universe Ends: Not With a Whimper, But a Bang Adam Mann , Science In the unimaginably far future, cold stellar remnants known as black dwarfs will begin to explode in a spectacular series of supernovae,... Read More Scientists Have Turned Bricks Into Batteries Dharna Noor , Earther We build homes out of bricks for lots of reasons. They’re resilient to high pressure and frost. They can withstand fluctuating temperatures... Read More Population Immunity Is Slowing Pandemic in the U.S. Antonio Regalado , MIT Review The large number of people already infected with the coronavirus in the US has begun to act as a brake on the spread of the disease in... Read More The Most Overhyped Planet in the Galaxy Marina Koren , The Atlantic Paul Byrne loves Mars. He wrote his doctoral thesis and several research papers about the planet. Most of his graduate students study Mars.... Read More Secret to a Long, Healthy Life Is in Genes of Oldest Humans Shelly Fan , Sing Hub The first time I heard nematode worms can teach us something about human longevity, I balked at the idea. How the hell can a worm with an... Read More Can Aging Really Be ’Treated’ or ’Cured’? Zachariah Wylde , The Conversation As time passes, our fertility declines and our bodies start to fail. These natural changes are what we call ageing.In recent decades, we’ve... Read More The Dark Side of Being a Female Shark Researcher Catherine Macdonald , Sci Am I was 21 years old when I encountered the place where sharks and television intersect. It was my first research internship, working with a... Read More The Latest Research Photosynthetic Hack Boosts Plant Yields and Saves Water University of Illinois Plants are factories that manufacture yield from light and carbon dioxide—but parts of this complex process, called photosynthesis, are... Read More Water Can Behave Like a Liquid Crystal Stockholm University Scientists at Stockholm University have discovered that water can exhibit a similar behavior like a liquid crystal when illuminated with... Read More Study Predicts Millions of Unsellable Homes Could Upend Market U of Arizona The study predicts that many baby boomers and members of Generation X will struggle to sell their homes as they become empty nesters and... Read More The Arctic May Lose Its Sea Ice by 2035 British Antarctic Survey High temperatures in the Arctic during the last interglacial – the warm period around 127,000 years ago – have puzzled scientists... Read More Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: ’Drawn-on-Skin’ Electronics Are Breakthrough in Wearable Monitors U Houston A team of researchers led by Cunjiang Yu, Bill D. Cook Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Houston, has... Read More Healthy Body Copes Well With One-Off Food Binges University of Bath A new study, which involved participants eating pizza well after feeling ‘full’ in order to test what immediate effects this had on the... Read More 12 Ways to Drastically Cut Your Dementia Risk Alice Klein , NewSci Almost half of all dementia cases could potentially be prevented or delayed by adopting 12 health measures, a major review has found.The... Read More Brain Benefits of Exercise Can Be Gained With a Single Protein UC -San Francisco A little-studied liver protein may be responsible for the well-known benefits of exercise on the aging brain, according to a new study in... Read More More From Real Clear Videos The Coronavirus Is Mutating. Now What? Buzzfeed Can You See Through the Fallacy That Fooled Doctors? Buzzfeed Shark Attack Test- Human Blood vs. Fish Blood Buzzfeed Can You Solve the Cheating Royal Riddle? BuzzfeedShining Light on Dark Matter What Dark Matter Is (Probably) Not Sean CarrollFor a recent YouTube video, a theorist with a postdoctoral fellowship at CERN named Dorota Grabowska discussed dark matter with popular science figure Dianna Cowern (more commonly known as Physics Girl). Below the video, a viewer typed the comment, Dark Matter is science speak for ‘we don’t have a clue.’” Read More more from Shining Light on Dark Matter Is It Absurd to Think That Hexaquarks Could Be Dark Matter? Sabine HossenfelderA New Generation of Dark Matter Experiments Sarah CharleyWhy Black Holes Probably Aren’t Dark Matter Ethan SiegelProof of Dark Matter May Lurk at Low-Energy Frontiers Ethan SiegelThe CRISPR Frontier A CRISPR Calf Reveals Technique’s UnpredictabilityThe calf was late. His due date, March 30, had come and gone. At first, Alison Van Eenennaam chalked it up to male calves tending to arrive a day or two on the tardy side. As the week wore on, the animal geneticist reminded herself that gene-edited embryos—like the one that had been growing inside Cow 3113 for the past nine months—can take a little longer...