Science
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How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science
“One Guinness, please!” says a customer to a barkeep, who flips a branded pint glass and catches it under the…
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At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers
At Least Two Countries Have Lost All Their Glaciers Two countries—Slovenia and Venezuela—have lost all of their glaciers. It is…
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Optical Illusions Can Fool AI Chatbots, Too
When Dimitris Papailiopoulos first asked ChatGPT to interpret colors in images, he was thinking about “the dress”—the notoriously confusing optical-illusion…
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See What Gives Sourdough Its Distinctive Taste and Smell
See What Gives Sourdough Its Distinctive Taste and Smell You can thank yeast and bacteria cultivated over generations for the…
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Recycle Your Eclipse Glasses to Share the Awe with Others
Donate Your Eclipse Glasses to Help Others Safely Enjoy the Awe The nonprofit Astronomers Without Borders is collecting gently used…
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Three Experiments Could Help Electrify Big Trucks
Three Experiments Could Help Electrify Big Trucks With a new EPA rule aiming to reduce carbon emissions from the biggest…
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How a Rare Islamic Astrolabe Helped Muslims, Jews and Christians Tell Time and Read Horoscopes
How a Rare Islamic Astrolabe Helped Muslims, Jews and Christians Tell Time and Read Horoscopes A rare Islamic astrolabe discovered…
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High-Profile Geoengineering Experiment Shuts Down
High-Profile Geoengineering Experiment Shuts Down A beleaguered solar geoengineering project failed to conduct field tests because of opposition from environmentalists…
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Electric Vehicles Beat Gas Cars on Climate Emissions over Time
Electric Vehicles Beat Gas Cars on Climate Emissions over Time New research says building electric vehicles leaves a bigger carbon…
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What Plant Migrations Tell Us about Ourselves
What Plant Migrations Tell Us about Ourselves New insights into why animals play, how to hunt an asteroid, and more…
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