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2 days ago · Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. A private U.S. spacecraft bound for the moon has captured stunning images of Earth one week into its flight.
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6 days ago · Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. The Big Bang is the prevailing cosmological model of the universe. But some authors argue that it may never have happened because the model...
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Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Not for nothing are dogs called man’s best friend: they are good for their owners’ mental and physical health, and some studies...
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5 days ago · Opinion, News, Analysis, Video and Polls. Are dogs really the key to better health and a happier life? In this new study, dog owners were invited to describe the biggest benefits and...
The Biggest Junk Science of 2024 - RealClearScience
Dec 17, 2024 · 3. People think that drinking raw milk will make them immune to H5N1. H5N1 bird flu is absolutely devastating birds and other wildlife across the globe. Now, it widely infects dairy cows and poultry in the U.S, resulting in sixty confirmed human cases in 2024.
Modern Science Tolerates Fools and Knaves. Here's a Solution
Nov 4, 2024 · A large part of modern science and social science already is tainted by the irreproducibility crisis of modern science —the combination of politicized groupthink, academic publish-or-perish culture, and statistical carelessness that means more than one half of modern scientific and social scientific research may be wrong. The same incentives that produce sloppy research, and which prevent ...
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Dec 17, 2024 · Latest Blog Articles from RealClearScience. In order to stay below 1.5°C of warming and thus mitigate the worst effects of climate change, the International Renewable Energy Agency estimates that countries will need to collectively invest $35 trillion into infrastructure by 2035.
Making Nuclear Space Propulsion a Reality - RealClearScience
Oct 5, 2024 · NASA plans to send crewed missions to Mars over the next decade – but the 140 million-mile (225 million-kilometer) journey to the red planet could take several months to years round trip.. This relatively long transit time is a result of the use of traditional chemical rocket fuel. An alternative technology to the chemically propelled rockets the agency develops now is called nuclear thermal ...
The Universe Is Smoother Than Theory Suggests
Sep 27, 2024 · Given how unfathomably large the universe is, it is perhaps understandable that we haven’t yet cracked all its secrets. But there are actually some pretty basic features, ones we used to think we could explain, that cosmologists are increasingly struggling to make sense of.
Our Findings Question the Notion That the Universe Is Fine-Tuned …
Nov 21, 2024 · Physicists have long grappled with the question of why the universe was able to support the evolution of intelligent life. The values of the many forces and particles, represented by some 30 so-called fundamental constants, all seem to line up perfectly to enable it.