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LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA detect most massive black hole merger to date
Collaboration has detected the merger of the most massive black holes ever observed with gravitational waves using the LIGO ...
Alpha males are rare among our fellow primates: scientists
New research on Monday contradicted the commonly held idea that males dominate females among primates, revealing far more ...
A Denver dino museum makes a find deep under own parking lot. Like 'a hole in one from the moon.'
A Denver museum known for its dinosaur displays has made a fossil bone discovery closer to home than anyone ever expected, ...
Peruvian citadel that is nearly 4,000 years old opens doors to tourists
To the music of conch shell trumpets, a 3,800-year-old citadel of the Caral civilization—one of the oldest in the ...
The biggest piece of Mars on Earth is going up for auction in New York
A 54-pound (25-kilogram) rock. Estimated auction price: $2 million to $4 million. Why so expensive? It's the largest piece of ...
Returning to the office isn't the answer to Canada's productivity problem—and it will add pressure to urban housing
As companies face pressure to increase productivity, many are calling workers back to the office—even though there is limited ...
School smartphone bans reflect growing concern over youth mental health and academic performance
According to the Pew Research Center, 67% of American adults support banning smartphones during class time, although only 36% ...
New clues from two million-year-old tooth enamel tell us more about an ancient relative of humans
For nearly a century, scientists have been puzzling over fossils from a strange and robust-looking distant relative of early ...
The ACT wants dog owners to spend three hours a day with their pet—but quality, not quantity, matters most
Authorities in the ACT have released draft regulations for the welfare of dogs. One inclusion getting attention is a ...
Polar vortex patterns explain shifting US winter cold despite warming climate
Despite a warming climate, bone-chilling winter cold can grip parts of the U.S. In a study appearing in Science Advances, ...
Permanent retention of exceptional trees can improve ecosystem integrity in managed forests
Even-aged forest management is geared towards timber production with ecosystem health as a lesser consideration. This creates ...
Dark matter could create dark dwarfs at the center of the Milky Way
Dark matter is one of nature's most confounding mysteries. It keeps particle physicists up at night and cosmologists glued to ...