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With experience and maturity, the two candidates have everything going for them

Birds barter shrewdly, jellyfish sleep brainlessly, and researchers raise their statistical standards

We’ve found thousands of distant planets, but not a cure for the common cold

There’s surprisingly little information out there on what to eat for brain health

It’s not that people can’t still be astronauts — it’s just there aren’t nearly enough jobs for all the people with the desire and ability to do it

Did the universe have a beginning? What happened before that? The British scientist used theoretical physics to find answers to such impossible questions

Scientists are increasingly betting their time and effort that the way to control the world is through proteins

There is a lot to be learnt from understanding the evolutionary process in a more detailed way

We’re living at a time of peak fossil fuel use, and this century will see the world’s population hit a peak before starting to fall off

Since many neutral hangers-on and some beneficial germ species are living in our guts and on our skin, it is a question of risks and their benefits.

Even if you put everything into the right blue bins, a lot of plastic will still end up in landfills and consumers can’t solve this problem

Some of them probably don’t think of themselves as smart as women, older people and college graduates are more likely to underestimate themselves