The Most Significant Science Setbacks of 2017
Scientific progress doesn’t always exactly look like, well, progress.
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Scientific progress doesn’t always exactly look like, well, progress.
Birding is the best. It’s Pokémon Go but more unpredictable and real.
Specifically, one mission to the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, and one to Saturn’s moon Titan.
"We’re seeing some new therapeutic doors to some of the most serious nervous system diseases."
"There’s no harm in eating right, being active, and cognitively and socially engaged. We just don’t have the evidence that supplies that conclusion right now.”
It’s now considered the oldest known frozen embryo to result in a successful birth.
If Mars did once have oceans, then where did they go?
The events that reminded us we’re actually living in the future of a not-so-distant past.
Clearly something strange is occurring.
One of the white whales of vaccine research—a cure for addiction—is a very small step closer to reality.
Just look at those engines.
Plants perform this trick by redistributing the energy of captured sunlight.
if you’re about to kiss someone whose breath smells like cabbage, maybe ask if their SELENBP1 gene is okay.
Global climate change can’t been explained away that easily.
It’s adorable, and also pitch perfect.
Stick with socks.
