Popular Science Stories

The Wrong Way to Plan for the Future
— We all know that thinking ahead is the only way to succeed in life. But a ton of new research shows that the more you think about future goals and ...
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Wearing skinny jeans too tight can cause health problems
— It's a fashion trend that we're seeing everywhere, at the mall, at work, and at school. We're talking about skinny jeans.
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APOD: 2012 May 22 - A Partial Solar Eclipse over Texas
— A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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Are We Eating Our Own Trash? (Infographic)
— Eating fresh fish is part of a healthy diet. But if the fish we are eating are living on a diet that includes the garbage we are tossing in the oce...
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A Universe with Billions of Binary Planets?
— The discovery that there are perhaps billions of solo rogue planets and binary planet systems in the Milky Way alone has led to a new theoretical s...
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Internal Atomic Structure Reveals Key to Pollution-Fighting Bacteria
— Some remarkable types of bacteria have proven themselves capable of “consuming” toxic pollutants, organically diminishing environmental impact in a...
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This Historic [SpaceX] Launch of Falcon 9 & Dragon (Video)
— A new beginning, "As NASA turns to the private sector to resupply the International Space Station".
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Lies You've Been Told About the Pacific Garbage Patch
— We talked with Scripps Institution marine biologist Miriam Goldstein, who has just completed a study of how plastic is changing the ecosystem in th...
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Tonight's 'Ring of Fire' Eclipse First Since 1994
— Tonight's "time traveling" annular solar eclipse hundreds of miles wide and thousands of miles long, will turn the familiar disk of...
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Google algorithm proves extremely useful in cancer study
— If you've ever had a problem with some of Google's frivolity, it'll all be forgiven after hearing this: researchers have used Google...
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