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A survey found that more than 60 percent of respondents “strongly support” making psychedelics easier to study, reflecting a ...

The “coastline paradox” helped to define fractals, but coastlines themselves turn out to be less fractal than thought ...

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This test flight comes at a pivotal moment for Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the company pushes to go public this year and show it’s ...

There is no cure for the hantavirus that has so far sickened at least nine people and killed three of them on a cruise ship ...

Called bernwoodite, it’s one of two new minerals Korolev and his adviser at the AMNH, Kate Kiseeva, and their colleagues ...

Debris is a growing threat to orbital infrastructure, and it’s only going to get worse as the number of launches increases ...

The rare isotope helium-3 is one of Earth’s most precious commodities—so precious, in fact, that it might prove profitable to ...