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Science reveals bizarre truths. Bananas are slightly radioactive. Stomachs digest themselves. Earth has more trees than stars. A teaspoon of neutron star weighs billions of tons. One can survive ...

Between 1-10 August 2022, a team of Portuguese and Spanish paleontologists has been working at the paleontological site in Pombal, Portugal.Credit: Instituto Dom Luiz, Faculty of Sciences of the ...

Anyone can do a simple experiment. Navigate to a search engine that offers suggested completions for what you type, and start typing “scientists believe.” When I did it, I got suggestions about the ...

Scientists recently announced they had found potential signs of life on a planet 124 light years from Earth. While the bold claim has been challenged, the mere prospect is enough to inflame a ...

Astronomers once believed the Sun revolved around the Earth. In the 19th century, scientists thought the shape of a person’s skull could reveal their mental strengths or weaknesses. And in the 20th ...

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Just the facts may not be enough to overcome misinformation, a recent study indicates. In an experiment, 152 college students who had been exposed to misinformation read one of two articles intended ...

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