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When Ben Rosenfeld started working as a residential assistant at a Stanford University dorm, he encountered 77 freshmen possessed by an “all-consuming” force. His new gig coincided with the release of ...

Jack Deschenes was doing serious volume on the pope market. Deschenes is 25 years old and, by his own account, knows next to nothing about the papal conclave. Yet in May 2025—as cardinals locked ...

This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Jana Rose Schleis from KBIA. In an ...

The Russian Sleep Experiment is a viral creepypasta describing a supposed Soviet test where prisoners were kept awake using experimental gas. As days passed, the subjects allegedly descended into ...

Creating a clear and well-defined bioanalytical methodology to quantify humoral and cellular immune responses is critical for ...

Working in strict secrecy, a government scientist in Norway built a machine capable of emitting powerful pulses of microwave energy and, in an effort to prove such devices are harmless to humans, in ...

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Tracing the origins of life is a major scientific challenge, made especially difficult by the scarcity of the very oldest fossils. To get around this lack of direct evidence, researchers have ...

The key to solving the mystery of the Viking results is the discovery of perchlorate on the Martian surface in 2008. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.