Science

What Causes the Northern and Southern Lights?

The auroras—the aurora borealis (or northern lights) in the Northern Hemisphere...

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6 Questions About DNA Answered

Deoxyribonucleic acid, better known as DNA, is crucial to life on Earth. The questions and answers in this list are taken from the Top Questions sections of...

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Are There Really Right-Brained and Left-Brained People?

Are you a logical, precise thinker, or would you say that you’re more free-spirited and artistic? If you’re...

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Large Hadron Collider

Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s most powerful particle accelerator. The Large Hadron Collider was constructed by the European...

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Investigating Therapeutic Uses for Hallucinogens

Hallucinogens are a class of psychoactive drugs that produce temporary mental changes that include distorted sensory...

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Nanotechnology

Nanotechnology, the manipulation and manufacture of materials and devices on the scale of atoms or small groups of atoms. The “nanoscale” is...

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