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Every single day is an opportunity to learn something new. But even if you’re not actively reading scientific studies, you can still pick up a lot of new info just by spending time online.

For decades, television advertising has been a game of creativity and repetition. Jingles and mascots became part of our ...

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Diagnoses of depression, one of the most common mental disorders, increased by nearly 50% between 1990 and 2017, according to ...

Earthquakes happen daily, sometimes with devastating consequences, yet predicting them remains out of reach. What scientists ...

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Solve the grid in this easy Sudoku puzzle! The objective of Sudoku is to fill each row, column and sub-grid with exactly one of each number from 1-9. A conflict arises if you repeat any entry in the ...

Adam Savage explores two spectacular examples of profound scientific discoveries stemming from simple, creative methods that anyone could have replicated: how Eratosthenes calculated the Earth's ...

Two new peer-reviewed papers claim thousands of unexplained light flashes in vintage Palomar telescope images show statistical ties to nuclear tests and UFO reports. Not everyone agrees with the paper ...