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Healthy Food Might Be Bad For Patients – Here’s Why

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126,000 Reasons Why The Emma Watson Hoax Isn't All Bad News

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UN Women Goodwill Ambassador and actor Emma Watson launched the HeForShe Campaign at the United Nations headquarters in New York, September 20th. Credit: EPA/JASON SZENES

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New Kind Of Organic Molecule Found In Milky Way’s Interstellar Medium

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By Rene Breton, University of Southampton

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”Just this week, Iran responded to Israel preemptively bombing their planned nuclear weapons facility by launching missiles, and the Israeli missile defense system, the Iron Dome, stopped most of...

Golden Dome Missile Shield A 'No-Brainer', According To EMP Expert · 3 hours ago
John
We can know that this isn't purely a Trumpian thing because of the reviews from two years ago which basically said: 1) Astronomers have treated the people of Hawai'i like crap and owe...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 13 hours ago
Hontas Farmer
I'm not going to say you are wrong about any of the above. I'd not be surprised by a rising price tag as that seems to be how these things always go. I can't think of any big science...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
John
To be honest, TMT did this to themselves by not being honest about the cost from the start. Had they told everyone that the cost for the installation would be on the order of $3 billion (most of...

The Thirty Meter Telescope May Be Cancelled Not by Ordinary People's Protest, but by Wealthy People's Whim · 1 day ago
Zack Y.
Isn't this a dangerous inversion of how science is supposed to be done? What's to prevent this same scenario playing out for ANY potential discovery coming from a precision measurement...

The Anomaly That Wasn't · 2 days ago

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