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How a disgruntled scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh...

Artemis Spyrou, Michigan State University; Katharina Domnanich, Michigan State University, and Sean Liddick, Michigan State University Each October, the...

Why is astronomy a science but astrology is not?

Talia Dan-Cohen, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and Carl Craver, Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St....

‘Jurassic World’ scientists still haven’t learned that just because you can...

Andrew Maynard, Arizona State University “Jurassic World: Dominion” is hyperbolic Hollywood entertainment at its best, with an action-packed storyline...

Electric eels inspired the first battery two centuries ago and now...

Timothy J. Jorgensen, Georgetown University As the world’s need for large amounts of portable energy grows at an ever-increasing...

Women’s History Month: 5 groundbreaking researchers who mapped the ocean floor,...

Maggie Villiger, The Conversation Behind some of the most fascinating scientific discoveries and innovations are women whose names might...

Trailblazing women who broke into engineering in the 1970s reflect on...

Laura Ettinger, Clarkson University Engineering in the U.S. has long been – and continues to be – a male-dominated...

From flying boats to secret Soviet weapons to alien visitors –...

Greg Eghigian, Penn State On June 25, 2021, the U.S. government released a nine–page preliminary report on UFOs, or,...

Smelling in stereo – the real reason snakes have flicking, forked...

Kurt Schwenk, University of Connecticut As dinosaurs lumbered through the humid cycad forests of ancient South America 180 million...

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