Thanks to Einstein’s relativity, time flows differently on Mars than on Earth. NIST scientists have now nailed down the difference, showing that Mars clocks tick slightly faster—and fluctuate over the ...

Are you a multitasker, a free spirit, or an overly optimistic planner? Experts say these are some of the traits that explain why some people are always running behind. Some people just seem wired to ...

While most planets that we are familiar with stick relatively close to their host star in a predictable orbit, some planets seem to have been knocked out of their orbits, floating through space free ...

To a zoologist, the leap of the grasshopper is one of the wonders of the world. An adult grasshopper can leap ten times its length in the high jump, 20 times its length in the broad jump. A man up to ...

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Have you ever fantasized about going back in time to relive a moment — or change it? Maybe you’re more interested in traveling to the future where cars fly and the code to immortality has been cracked ...

Death came in Manhattan last fortnight to Columbia’s Professor Franz Boas, who more than 30 years ago scientifically demolished “this Nordic nonsense” in The Mind of Primitive Man, a book which has ...

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