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All of us, even postmodern philosophers, are naive realists at heart. We assume that the external world maps perfectly onto our internal view of it--an expectation that is reinforced by daily experience. I see a coffee mug on the table, reach for a sip an

Doctors have begun linking garden compost to an unusual source of Legionnaire’s disease

By Eugenie Samuel Reich Supersolids--bizarre quantum solids that flow effortlessly, as they have no friction--have come back into the limelight. [More] Physics - People - Theoretical - Quantum Computing - Quantum Mechanics

By Rhiannon Smith As the first findings start to arrive from the Hubble Space Telescope since its repair last year, researchers are shedding new light on one of our nearest and most exciting supernova neighbours as they resume tracking its explosive hist

Marine worms might seem like lowly, slow-witted creatures, but new gene mapping shows that we might share an ancient brainy ancestor with them. [More] Gene - Annelid - Cerebral cortex - Common descent - Worms

The Pentagon, 1943 PopSci's first looks at the Empire State Building, the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, and more We've heard it said that Rome wasn't built in a day. And while Popular Science isn't old enough to have witnessed the Colosseum going u

Scientists unearth more evidence of superfast changes in Earth’s magnetic polarity

Observations with the Herschel infrared space observatory have revealed that ultraviolet light is a key ingredient in the formation of an unexpected cloud of water vapor around an old red giant star.

Three Mile Island, Challenger, Chernobyland now, Deepwater Horizon. Like those earlier disasters, the destruction of the drilling rig was an accident waiting to happen. Deepwater Horizon - Drill Rigs - BP - Energy - Gulf of Mexico

When Brazilian defender Roberto Carlos struck a powerful free-kick from about 30 meters out in a 1997 international match against France, he could not have known that scientists would still be discussing his feat more than a dozen years later. Indeed, he

We all know that elephants aren’t really scared of mice. But a new study shows that they’re really not crazy about something even smaller: ants. In fact, elephants dislike ants so much that they avoid acacia trees that harbor the tiny, six-legged nect

A particularly mind-bending (and controversial) physics paper surfaced in the past week that should make you feel pretty special. It seems the laws of physics can change after all, and it just so happens they're uniquely suited for us right here, right no

MIT's Test Cell Patrick Gillooly, MIT Plants are extremely efficient converters of light into energy, more or less setting the bar for researchers creating photovoltaic cells that convert sunlight into electricity. As such, researchers are constantly try

Miss the good old days of daily oil disaster news? Worry not, for another oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded this morning, leaving all 13 crew members in the water but - according to initial reports - all are alive and only one is injured. The rig is

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