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Belief in Conspiracies Tied to Lower Critical Thinking Skills, But Don’t Get Smug
In a time rife with disasters, when more people than ever can find an audience online, conspiracy theories seem to be growing more outrageous by…
Just What Is a Suborbital Flight Anyway?
“Suborbital” is a term you’ll be hearing a lot as Sir Richard Branson flies aboard Virgin Galactic’s VSS Unity winged spaceship and Jeff Bezos flies…
Watch Out, Criminals: Dirt at Crime Scenes Can Give You Away With Surprising Accuracy
Scientists have figured out the best forensic technique to get the dirt on criminals. Knowing which technique to use means that a remnant of soil or…
Homo Who? A New Mystery Human Species Has Been Discovered in Israel
An international group of archaeologists have discovered a missing piece in the story of human evolution. Excavations at the Israeli site of Nesher Ramla have…
Just How Environmentally Friendly Is Thrifting?
Making secondhand purchases is naturally eco-friendly: You’re giving new life to something ordinarily destined for the landfill — and likely saving some money and supporting…
Puddle of Mudd Announce 21-Date U.S. Tour
Puddle of Mudd have just announced a 21-date U.S. tour which begins this summer and will spill into the fall. The run, which finds the…
A New System Is Helping Crack Down on Child Sex Abuse Images
Each day, a team of analysts in the UK faces a seemingly endless mountain of horrors. The team of 21, who work at the Internet…
The Latest Pro-Trump Twitter Clone Leaks User Data on Day 1
The security woes of pro-Trump social media sites have been a theme of 2021: First, an absurdly basic bug in Parler allowed all of its…
Handwriting Is Better Than Typing When Learning a New Language, Study Finds
In our daily lives, we spend a lot more time tapping at a screen and typing on a keyboard than writing with pencil and pen,…
Iconic Yellowstone Park Faces Startling Climate Threats
This story originally appeared on Yale Environment 360 and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1872, when Yellowstone was designated as the first…