Watch: Mark Cuban Says You Can’t Fix Healthcare Until Every Price Is Known
The ongoing debate over the U.S. health system shouldn’t be based on whether the government or the private…
How sea slugs get their flashy colors
birds: Warm-blooded dinosaurs with wings that first showed up at least 150 million years ago. Birds are jacketed…
Big waves shape this surfer-scientist’s research and life
abstract: Something that exists as an idea or thought but not concrete or tangible (touchable) in the real…
Cows’ methane burps may be driven by fuzzy microbes
agriculture: The growth of plants, animals or fungi for human needs, including food, fuel, chemicals and medicine. archaea:…
Teens invent first chewing gum to tackle anxiety
adolescent: Someone in that transitional stage of physical and psychological development that begins at the onset of puberty,…
Pokémon Go players helped build new maps of cities
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Scientists Say: Observable universe
arc: A curve, often mapping out what appears to be part of a circle. Big Bang: The rapid…
Got pollen allergies? Light pollution might make them worse
allergy: The inappropriate reaction by the body’s immune system to a normally harmless substance. Untreated, a particularly severe…
Greece braces for the economic fallout from the Iran crisis
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Animals experience joy. Scientists want to measure it
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Energy may seem to disappear, but there’s a law against that
atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up of a dense nucleus that contains…
Newfound fossil is not a teen T. rex but a whole new species
asteroid: A rocky object in orbit around the sun. Most asteroids orbit in a region that falls between…