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The Problem With Spinning Spacecraft

While it would be awesome for people to be able to live in space, a "weightless" environment poses some serious challenges. Humans function best...

How a quest for mathematical truth and complex models can lead to useless scientific predictions

A dominant view in science is that there is a mathematical truth structuring the universe. It is assumed that the scientist's job is to...

Astronomers have just watched the most powerful explosion ever seen

A gamma ray burst about 2.4 billion light years away is being called “the BOAT” – the brightest of all time – and is...

Why ‘Carbon Emissions’ Are Now ‘Climate Pollution’

California activists fought to frame climate change as an air quality problem. Now it’s federal law.

What drives ecosystems to instability? With only a little information, researchers can predict the circumstances under which an ecosystem will be stable or unstable

Trying to decipher all of the factors that influence the behavior of complex ecological communities can be a daunting task. However, MIT researchers have...

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