According to a new study from Dartmouth in collaboration with Amherst College, people are aware of color to a surprisingly limited extent in their peripheral vision. The findings are published in Proceedings of the…
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According to data from NASA's last Cassini mission, the moon Titan is moving away from Saturn one hundred times faster than thought.
Titan is currently 1.2 million kilometers from Saturn, and is approximately 11 centimeters away...
Inequality and discrimination or classism based on said inequality is a profound and, to a certain extent, inextricable part of human relationships.
We are only more aware of the inequalities that become apparent…
It is often argued that science makes mistakes, that science corrects itself, that science, if it is dogmatic, is not science. This is not entirely true. It all depends, of course, on what we consider to be immovable or dogmatic.
Much…
Researchers at MIT discovered a couple of years ago that fasting for 24 hours activates a metabolic shift in mice, causing their intestines to improve their intestinal stem cells.
Intestinal stem cells are a…
The first detailed study of the diets of great white sharks off Australia's east coast reveals that this predator spends more time feeding near the seafloor than expected.
The study found that, according to…
Our image of Uranus has not advanced substantially beyond being the featureless blue ball captured by Voyager 2's instruments in 1986.
But last year, while reviewing NASA files, two ci...
Although we complain bitterly assuming that children read little or that they spend hours and hours reading nonsense, gossip and memes on their social networks, the truth is that this has been a constant throughout history.
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For the first in its 159 years of existence, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has elected a black woman as president of its Undergraduate Association (UA).
Danielle Geathers obtained the position after organizing a successful ca…
Escherichia coli (E. coli for friends) is a bacteria that is a member of the Enterobacteriaceae family and is part of the microbiota of the gastrointestinal tract of homeothermic animals, such as humans.
Most of …