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Makeup Makes Older Faces Look Younger, and Younger Faces Look Older
Middle-aged faces look younger with makeup on, 20-year-old faces look older with makeup and 30-year-old faces look their real age with or without makeup
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Theoretical Physics Is Pointless without Experimental Tests
Our discipline is a dialogue with nature, not a monologue, as some theorists would prefer to believe
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David Hosack, Revolutionary Nerd
The visionary scientist, physician to both Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, insisted that science “knows not party politics”
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Studying Climate Change in One of the Grandest Classrooms in the World
If I could, I’d bring politicians who doubt the reality of human-caused global change to spend a few days on the Juneau Icefield
East of Siberia: Goral on the Cliffs
They are highly secretive animals: stocky, goatlike creatures about the size of German shepherds
How Freely Should Scientists Share Their Data?
The Open Science movement champions transparency, but how much and how quickly is a matter of dispute
Maximum Alienness
What might make life hard to recognize as life?
Lion-Hunting by Trump Donors Is Awful, but the Trade in Lion Bones Is Worse
Experts worry this booming trade could doom the big cats in the wild
Vidit Nanda's Favorite Theorem
Fixed points and pizza
When Protomammals Ruled Earth
A new study changes our understanding of how ancient forest collapse changed the course of life on Earth
Mars and the Waves of Darkening
Be careful what you wish for, the universe can look alive when it's not
Small Dogs Aim High When They Pee
Researchers are still trying to figure out why
Into the Solar Wind
This is what NASA's Parker Solar Probe plans to fly through
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