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The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Isn’t What You Think it Is
It’s not all bottles and straws—the patch is mostly abandoned fishing gear.
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Pruitt tapes revealed: Evolution's a 'theory,' 'majority' religions under attack
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt dismissed evolution as an unproven theory, lamented that “minority religions” were pushing Christianity out of “the public square” and advocated amending the Constitution to ban abortion, prohibit same-sex marriage and protect the Pledge of Allegiance and the Ten Commandments, according to a newly unearthed series of Oklahoma talk radio shows from 2005.
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The Magnetohydrodynamic Drive Is Real—and You Can Build One
All you need is a battery, a magnet, and some wires to build your own quasi-fictional submarine drive. By Rhett Allain.
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The World’s Most Metal Bird Makes Darkness Out of Chaos
The highly modified feathers of a male bird of paradise absorb 99.95 percent of light, creating an astonishingly dark black.
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Top 10 Isaac Newton Inventions
Almost 300 years after his death, Sir Isaac Newton remains one of the most influential thinkers in history. What are some of his most enduring inventions?
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A High-School Student Just Won $250,000 For This Incredible Explanation of Relativity
The German physicist Albert Einstein needed complex equations to describe his theory of relativity, but 18-year-old Hillary Diane Andales of the Philippines does just fine with a pick-up truck, a few cell phones, and Usain Bolt.
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English Majors Can Be Doctors Too: Medical School Rethinks Pre-Med
Many of the students at Mount Sinai's medical school in New York majored in English or history, and never took the MCAT. The school sees that diversity among its students as a great strength.
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Why We Can’t Rule Out Bigfoot - Issue 53: Monsters - Nautilus
How the null hypothesis keeps the hairy hominid alive.
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Hanna Fry
Mathematician, science presenter and all round badass
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You could use a banana to work your touch screen … if you wanted to
How do touch screens work? And why do bananas work just as well as your finger but pens don't?
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A Tech Bubble Killed Computer Science Once, Can It Do So Again?
The bursting of the dot.com bubble in 2000 prompted students to reject computer science programs. Enrollments plummeted with the crash. But colleges are now scrambling to keep up with the major’s year-after-year enrollment growth.
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EPA intends to form “red team” to debate climate science
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt and Energy Secretary Rick Perry have been making some headlines for publicly rejecting the conclusions of climate science. But in between wrongly claiming that climate scientists just don’t know how much of a contribution humans make to recent global warming (answer: roughly 100 percent), they have also been parroting a new line—that climate science needs a “red team” to take on the scientific consensus.
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The US government is removing scientific data from the Internet
At Ars Technica Live, we talked to Lindsey Dillon, who decided to do something about it.
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A physicist explains just why all those flights were grounded in Arizona...
Airplanes can't fly because it's too hot? That's crazy. No, not if you understand the science behind it.
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First Discovery for ‘Backyard Worlds: Planet 9’ Project: Cold Brown Dwarf.
Professional and citizen astronomers with the NASA-funded ‘Backyard Worlds: Planet 9’ project have made their first significant discovery: a new brown dwarf in the solar neighborhood,
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Alan Alda's Experiment: Helping Scientists Learn To Talk To The Rest Of Us
The actor's new book, If I Understood You, Would I Have This Look on My Face?, is all about communication — and miscommunication — between doctors, scientists and civilians.
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Get Over It: The World's First 3D-Printed Bridge Officially Opened
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Italy makes vaccination mandatory for children | News | DW | 19.05.2017
The Italian government has approved a law ordering parents to vaccinate children or face fines. The authorities have noted a rise in measles cases, which the cabinet blames on "the spread of anti-scientific theories."
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Thousands Join 'March for Science' in Chicago
Thousands of people gathered in downtown Chicago on Saturday to join the “March for Science” event, one of hundreds of rallies around the world advocating for the scientific community. Scheduled to begin at 10 a.m. in the city’s Grant Park, crowds were so large by 12 p.m. that Chicago police issued a request that anyone planning to attend, but had not yet arrived, refrain from joining the event.
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Congressman promotes a Charles Darwin Day to fight science skepticism
U.S. Rep. Jim Himes has taken on the role of promoting a Charles Darwin Day in the House of Representatives, saying he believes it’s the type of legislation his southwestern Connecticut constituents want him to pursue at a time when skepticism surrounds science.
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