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The Real Reason Fans Hate the Last Season of Game of Thrones
It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological
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We Broke the Atmosphere; Here's a Way We Can Start to Fix It
It’s counterintuitive, but let’s temporarily increase carbon dioxide emissions in order to get rid of a more potent greenhouse gas
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Where (Some of) Earth's Gold Came From
Of all of that precious metal ever refined, 600 tons were created in a collision between two neutron stars, 1,000 light-years away and 4.6 billion years ago
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The Illusionists on the Playground
What folk illusions reveal about children’s perception and cognition
I Hate the Month of May
It will forever remind me that ALS took my mom away
Health Researchers Must Work with Communities, Not on Them
So how should they go about it?
Kavli and Nobel Laureates Tackle Science's Big Questions
Highlights from an hour-long panel of Kavli and Nobel prizewinners at the National Academy of Sciences
How to Reverse the Assault on Science
We need to let non-scientists know that science isn't based on "proof," but rather on the practice of testing and checking one another's work
The Next Wave of Immuno-Oncology
A cutting-edge therapy currently used for blood cancers is now being adapted to fight solid tumors
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Organ Stealing and Slavery Rampant Among—Plankton? [Video]
Ocean microbes long thought to depend exclusively on eating turn out to have a solid, if sinister, Plan B
Moon Blobs, Collapsars and Long Planets
A roundup of recent research with astrobiological implications
Be Careful with Occam’s Razor, You Might Cut Yourself
A biologist-philosopher cautions against banishing from our worldview things that science cannot comprehend
Tiny Tyrannosaur Named the "Coyote King"
Fossils found in New Mexico reveal a carnivorous dinosaur from before the time of T. rex
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