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Welcome! This is going to be the first of a new sort of post we’ll do from time to time where I answer a number of shorter questions posed by my patrons over at Patreon who are at the Patres …

A very long time ago I had an interesting if flawed idea. The idea was to (optionally) replace instances of expression constructs with equations defining or referring to components of conventional …

A mystery solved by science: a new type of giant clam in the Indian Ocean, unmasked!

At least half of termite studies used to be about how to kill them. But science is discovering their extraordinary usefulness

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The era of cheap natural gas is over, giving way to an age of far more costly energy that will create ripple effects across the global economy.

NASA is calling for applicants interested in spending a year in a 1,700 square foot habitat meant to help study what it will be like for future explorers to live on the surface of Mars.While participants would not need to strap into a rocket and blast off…

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NASA’s selection of SpaceX’s Starship within the Human Lander System (HLS) program was both surprising and exciting for space nerds all over. Previously I have written about how Starshi…

Families of kids with a rare disease have waited years for a treatment. In seconds, an AI tool pinpointed an unexpected target: ketamine. 

Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell chronicle the fall of WeWork's day-drinking co-founder and chief snake-oil salesman.

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