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DEF CON’s Space Security Challenge 2020 tasked teams with hacking satellites. The grand prize? Nothing less than the moon. | Continue reading
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Thousands of volunteers are data scraping public websites to compile police records into a single national database for researchers to mine. | Continue reading
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This model, created by doctoral students, provides a convincing explanation for a mystery that is thousands of years old - the cause of static electricity. | Continue reading
Johns Hopkins is throwing its considerable clout behind the fast-growing field of psychedelic research, pouring $17 million into a research center to study the hallucinogenic drugs. | Continue reading
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Margaret Rossiter has made it her lifework to spotlight female scientists who were written out of history books through systematic censorship. Read our Q&A with this groundbreaking historian. | Continue reading
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In the search for more sustainable methods of global food production, one couple in the Netherlands is taking an unconventional approach: they have become the operators of the world's first and only floating dairy farm. | Continue reading