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David Cyranoski, Nature News Why the Horten Experimental Nazi Aircraft Never Took Off Leigh Giangreco, Sonian Surprising New Discoveries in Human Anatomy Diana Kwon, The Scientist How Gods Beat Astronomers in Solar System's Name Game Stephen Case, Aeon Radical Surgery Permanently Extends Your Legs Dan Robitzski, Futurism The Pros and Cons of a Lunar Pit Stop Marina Koren, The Atlantic Follow RCScience: Facebook | Twitter | News360 | Email The Latest Research Rotating Detonation Engine Could Make Rockets More Efficient Washington Late Fall May Be Best Time of Year to Try to Conceive Boston University Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Canaanite Temple EurekAlert! Find Gives Unprecedented Look at Neanderthal Burial Practices Cambridge Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: 10,000 Steps a Day Won't Prevent Weight Gain Brigham Young University Why DNA Tests Are Suddenly Unpopular Rani Molla, Vox Breakthrough Will Allow Tiny Implants to Upgrade Body David Warmflash, Leaps Protein Called Sestrin Mimics Exercise's Effects in Mice University of Michigan More From Real Clear Videos Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics? Buzzfeed Myocarditis: When a Virus Hijacks Your Heart Buzzfeed Watch a Sarcastic Fringehead Fish Fight an Octopus Buzzfeed Do Fish Dream? Buzzfeed -- France's Deadly Seaweed Lorraine Boissoneault , Hakai Magazine André Ollivro has spent years stomping around the beaches of Brittany, France, putting on a show for the cameras. Sometimes he wears a... Read More Ancient Plant Remains Reveal Cooking of Earliest Australians The Conversation Australia's first people ate a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and other plant foods, many of which would have taken considerable... Read More How Did Dinosaur Footprints Get on the Roof of a Cave? McGhee & Stunzner , ABC A mystery surrounding dinosaur footprints on the ceiling of a cave in central Queensland has been solved after more than half a century.It... Read More Study: Long-Term Offenders Have Different Brain Structure Nicola Davis , Guardian Parents should not worry about their teenagers' delinquent behaviour provided they were well behaved in their earlier childhood, according to... Read More Should Colleges Invite Anti-GMO Speakers? Alison Van Eenennaam , GLP Do public Universities have an obligation to present evidence-based information? Does freedom of speech extend to sponsoring speakers who... Read More When the Sun Expands, It Will Trash All the Asteroids John Timmer , Ars Technica We tend to view the bodies of the Solar System as creations of gravity, which pulled their parts together and holds them in place as they... Read More When Will the Coronavirus Outbreak Peak? David Cyranoski , Nature News Coronavirus infections in China continue to swell by thousands a day, prompting epidemiologists to estimate when the outbreak will peak. Some... Read More Why the Horten Experimental Nazi Aircraft Never Took Off Leigh Giangreco , Sonian In the years after World War I, when aviation was all the rage in Europe and North America but the Treaty of Versailles banned the production... Read More Surprising New Discoveries in Human Anatomy Diana Kwon , The Scientist In the 16th century, when the study of human anatomy was still in its infancy, curious onlookers would gather in anatomical theaters to catch... Read More How Gods Beat Astronomers in Solar System's Name Game Stephen Case , Aeon It was the autumn of 1846, and John Herschel (1792-1871), the British astronomer and natural philosopher, was not sleeping well. He had just... Read More Radical Surgery Permanently Extends Your Legs Dan Robitzski , Futurism IN THE LAST YEAR, at least 30 men have made an appointment with an orthopedic surgeon named Dr. Kevin Debiparshad to have him saw through... Read More The Pros and Cons of a Lunar Pit Stop Marina Koren , The Atlantic Last week, NASA put out a call for applications for its next class of astronauts. In recent years, when the agency has asked for... Read More The Latest Research Rotating Detonation Engine Could Make Rockets More Efficient Washington It takes a lot of fuel to launch something into space. Sending NASA's Space Shuttle into orbit required more than 3.5 million pounds of fuel,... Read More Late Fall May Be Best Time of Year to Try to Conceive Boston University In the US, birthdays peak in early September, but in Northern states—and Scandinavia—the peak comes earlier, in the summer or... Read More Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Canaanite Temple EurekAlert! "And the Lord delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, which took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all... Read More Find Gives Unprecedented Look at Neanderthal Burial Practices Cambridge The first articulated Neanderthal skeleton to come out of the ground for over 20 years has been unearthed at one of the most important sites... Read More Humans Of The Future Sponsored By: 10,000 Steps a Day Won't Prevent Weight Gain Brigham Young University For years now, 10,000 steps a day has become the gold standard for people trying to improve their health — and recent research shows... Read More Why DNA Tests Are Suddenly Unpopular Rani Molla , Vox DNA tests were a big holiday hit — in 2018. This past year, Ancestry and 23andMe DNA kit sales on their websites saw major declines,... Read More Breakthrough Will Allow Tiny Implants to Upgrade Body David Warmflash , Leaps Imagine it's the year 2040 and you're due for your regular health checkup. Time to schedule your next colonoscopy, Pap smear if you're a... Read More Protein Called Sestrin Mimics Exercise's Effects in Mice University of Michigan Whether it be a brisk walk around the park or high intensity training at the gym, exercise does a body good. But what if you could harness... Read More More From Real Clear Videos Does Consciousness Influence Quantum Mechanics? Buzzfeed Myocarditis: When a Virus Hijacks Your Heart Buzzfeed Watch a Sarcastic Fringehead Fish Fight an Octopus Buzzfeed Do Fish Dream? Buzzfeed -- Shining Light on Dark Matter The Universe Would Be Very Different Without Dark Matter Sean Carroll -- One of the most puzzling and counterintuitive facts about the Universe is that all of the "stuff" that's familiar to us in our day-to-day lives on Earth makes up just 5% of all that's out there. The protons, neutrons, and electrons that make up all the normal matter found in our bodies, the planet, the Solar System and throughout the galaxy make up only a fraction of what's out there. Read More more from Shining Light on Dark Matter Galaxy Formation Simulated Without Dark Matter Sabine Hossenfelder -- A New Generation of Dark Matter Experiments Sarah Charley -- Could a 'Dark Matter Signal' Just Be Poorly Analyzed Noise? Ethan Siegel -- Are Axions Dark Matter? Ethan Siegel -- The CRISPR Frontier CRISPR Immune Cells Thrive After Infusion Into Patients -- Genetically-edited immune cells can persist, thrive, and function months after a cancer patient receives them, according to new data published by researchers from the Abramson Cancer Center of the University of Pennsylvania. The team showed cells removed from patients and brought back into the lab setting were able to k...