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How much are we actually willing to pay for future innovations in science and technology? And not in a figurative way...
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A study shows that the further we're personally removed from a harmful or even lethal action, the easier we can rationalize its execution.
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If you're going to fake being an expert online, you better learn the tricks of the pseudo-expert trade.
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A new paper says that warp drives could bathe planets in apocalyptic radiation storms, but how it arrives at this conclusion raises a lot of questions.
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Amazingly, professional global warming and climate change denialists are not doing what they're doing out of the goodness of their hearts...
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Publishing code used in scientific studies sounds like a good idea, but its implementation and consequences need a lot more thought first...
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Apparently middle aged planets also gain mass around their equators according to an amateur geologist very passionate about his epiphany.
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Crime rates are plummeting and no one seems to be able to explain why.
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The infamous NASA-backed paper claiming that exotic biochemistry was found on Earth gets eviscerated in the latest round in reviews.
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Scientists have had it with traditional publishers acting as parasitic middlemen and their tradition of ever-escalating price gouging.