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Scientists Are Hunting for a Mysteriously Missing Supermassive Black Hole
A distant galaxy should have a back hole that is billions of times more massive than the Sun, but it's nowhere to be found. Where is it?
Desperate Colleges Resort to Memes to Try and Talk Students Out of Partying
Students shouldn’t have to personally bear the burden of their safety, or have to see Drake memes about it, yet here we are.
NASA’s Solar Probe Found Things Near the Sun That We Can’t Explain
Scientists say the unexplained rogue waves and high winds mean we are “missing something really fundamental in our standard models of the Sun.”
Wasps Are Capable of Basic Logical Reasoning, Study Finds
Paper wasps are the first known insects to perform a key form of deductive logic called transitive inference.
‘Mutant Rabbit’ Lost By University of Michigan Laboratory, FOIA Docs Show
The University of Michigan was home to a series of animal deaths in 2018.
This Runaway ‘Hypervelocity’ Star Was Catapulted from the Milky Way’s Disk
“This discovery dramatically changes our view on the origin of fast-moving stars.”
Watch a Massive Tarantula Drag an Opossum Around Like It's Nothing
“A surprising amount of death of small vertebrates in the Amazon is likely due to arthropods such as big spiders and centipedes."
Researchers Created Fake 'Master' Fingerprints to Unlock Smartphones
It’s the same principle as a master key, but applied to biometric identification with a high rate of success.
A New Type of Computer Could Render Many Software Hacks Obsolete
DARPA is pumping millions of dollars into a computer circuit “Rubik’s cube.”
Why We Need to Challenge the Culture of Monogamy
Relationship norms are so pervasive, they've led to flawed science.
Teens Don't Party Like They Used to, Study Says
The number of teenagers using drugs, drinking, or smoking is at the lowest it's been since 1990.