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In 1922 Scientific American announced a high-stakes international contest to find scientific proof of ghosts. The competition offered $5,000,and it…
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On April 1, 1950, the New York Times carried a sensational front-page headline, “U.S. Censors H-Bomb Data; 3,000 Magazine Copies…
It’s easy to see why people don’t love the idea of virtual conferences. Sitting for hours behind a computer screen,…
During a 2016 solar eclipse, a team led by researchers at Sweden's Lund University projected a beam of infrared laser…
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