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Explaining the passage of time has been a gnarly problem in physics basically forever, but physicist and computer scientist ...

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A team of French scientists say they've solved the long-standing mystery of how Venus flytraps shut so quickly. They say that the plants spring shut from softening in the outside of their leaves, but ...

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Jared Isaacman says NASA has captured imagery of unknown objects it cannot explain, as Trump pushes broader UAP ...

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Last month, two different Uber drivers told the science-communication researcher that they thought trust in science was low in their countries. Have people stopped trusting science? The data tell a ...

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