He was like a "favourite uncle" to the millions who watched the show, said his son John.
Michelle Starr, Sci Alert
For the first time, physicists have succeeded in creating a strange, fragile kind of structure in a laboratory known as a trilobite Rydberg...
Kristin Houser, FreeThink
Clinical trials are the make or break stage for new pharmaceuticals, and unfortunately, most break —
Prof Stephon Alexander, Sci Focus
In the corridors of academia, there are those rare brilliant individuals who can seamlessly bridge several scientific disciplines.
Stuart Vyse, Skeptical Inquirer
Many social programs are implemented with the best of intentions and later discovered to be either ineffective or, in the worst cases, counterproductive. At...
Larson et al., AP
Unfounded claims about offshore wind threatening whales have surfaced as a flashpoint in the fight over the future of renewable energy.
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Robert N. Charette, IEEE Spectrum
As she drives her electric vehicle to her mother's house, Monique's battery gauge indicates that it's time to reenergize. She stops at a...
Paul M. Sutter, Universe Today
String theory, like most revolutions, had humble origins. It started all the way back in the 1960's as an attempt to understand the workings of the strong...
Nell Greenfieldboyce, NPR
Here's a question to ponder during these cold, wintry days: How big can snowflakes get?
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Samantha Mathewson, Space.com
The night sky of 2023 delivered many amazing views, from bright fiery comets to extraordinary auroras, unexpected meteor lunar impacts, newfound supernovas —...
Ben Turner, Live Science
A survey of more than 25 million galaxies has found a strange contradiction in how astronomers measure the universe's clumpiness, and it could threaten the standard...
Nadia Drake, Quanta Magazine
By one metric, this year's biggest physics news happened 80 years ago. Yet while the success of a movie about the making of the atomic bomb was a surprise, the...
Robin McKie, Guardian
Men and women might have had their fingers deliberately chopped off during religious rituals in prehistoric times, according to a new interpretation of palaeolithic...
Three men who are Jewish, Muslim and Catholic opened La Sandwicherie in Greenpoint, Brooklyn and have added two more sandwich shops.
South Africa captain Temba Bavuma's participation in the on-going first Test against India was thrown into jeopardy after he limped off the field with a left hamstring strain in Centurion on Tuesday.
Yes, the F-22 can be beaten in battle. France did it back in 2009:
More than a decade ago, one of the most controversial incidents in the air industry took place when a French Rafale fighter jet defeated America’s F-22 Raptor stealth fighter in mock combat.
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Australian cricketer says ICC is showing 'double standards' about when players can display political images.
The Estonian Olympic Committee (EOK) has announced the nominees for 2023's male athlete of the year.
Treasury yields were little-changed on Tuesday as investors settled in for what is expected to be a quiet final week of trading for 2023.
Rumors are swirling on social media that food courts at Costco Wholesale will be getting rid of churros in the new year, but the company has not commented.
Bill Schneider, The Messenger
Dangerous divisions are opening up in both political parties over foreign policy. Israel's war in Gaza is throwing the traditional Democratic Party...
Richard Haass, Project Syndicate
The advantage historians have over journalists is that the passage of time offers them a perspective not available to those with immediate deadlines. But the...