There were 39,000 organ transplants performed in 2020. That’s a lot of potentially life-saving operations.…
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No one likes to be sick, and in the age of Covid this hits home…
They say the truth is stranger than fiction and while that may not always be…
Most scientific myths are just that: widely held science beliefs that have little to no…
There’s no doubt humans are the most clever animals on the planet Earth. We developed…
Since the 1920s, our understanding of the universe has greatly expanded. Edwin Hubble, the man…
The word doctor actually comes from the Latin word for “teacher.” These were meant to…
Average smartphone use has climbed so high that, as Vox reported in December 2020, when…
Sharks are the most maligned creatures on earth. For most of human history, no one…
According to the Doomsday Clock, it’s 100 seconds to midnight. Created in 1947, the clock…
It’s never easy to prove a negative, so there’s no way to know exactly how…
We talk about scientific mysteries so much around here that you’d think that scientists are…
Since 1958, NASA has operated as one of the world’s leading space agencies. For over…
Francis Bacon, an English philosopher responsible for creating the Scientific Method, wrote in 1620 that…
The living world is full of weirdness. Just look at goblin sharks and platypuses. Biology…
Space isn’t just the final frontier, it’s a vast expanse of weirdness. From black holes,…
About a hundred years ago, the technology of the world was decidedly different than it…
Before we set out to explore the cosmos, we’d first have to know everything there…
In his 1865 poem “When I Heard The Learn’d Astronomer,” Walt Whitman describes how listening to…
Once nuclear power’s potential was clear, ideas were generated in all areas for how it…
We live in an age in which France is lining up flying taxis to help…
As we develop tools to explore other worlds for signs of life, there’s still so…
There have been quite a few groundbreaking discoveries in biology, neuroscience, space research, and so…
The unofficial USPS creed has long been “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom…