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One summer when I was in college in the late 1970s, I tried door-to-door sales. I was not successful — I once fell off a porch and into a flower bed. But I learned a valuable lesson: Most people ...

Physicists provide a viable and testable explanation for how UHECRs are created. Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays are the highest-energy particles in the universe, whose energies are more than a ...

"We are able to measure the local dark matter density using direct acceleration measurements for the first time." Dark matter, widely known as the universe's most mysterious stuff, is rarer on ...

The term ‘exobiology’ excludes life on Earth. It is, of course, impossible at present to study exobiology without reference to life on Earth. Even if several extraterrestrial life forms were ...

Universal Orlando has released some of the first genuine, ground-level photos of its Epic Universe theme park, which is about two months away from its grand opening. The images provide the first ...

“Music is the invisible architecture that holds up the universe,” says Jim James, rhythm guitarist, singer, and songwriter with rockers My Morning Jacket. As leader of the group, he’s had ...

Update: NASA is now targeting a launch for Friday, March 7. Find the latest information on the mission here. How did the universe begin? How do planets form and galaxies develop? Could life exist ...

Indie game developer Estoty and publisher SayGames have finally revealed the long-awaited release date for My Little Universe on PlayStation and Xbox. The game has already been out for a year and ...

When you see pasta, your brain probably doesn't jump to the secrets of the universe. But for almost a century, physicists have puzzled over spaghetti's counterintuitive properties. You might think ...

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Apprentice navigator and captain-in-training Kai Hoshijo, right, talks with captain and navigator Lehua Kamalu, bottom, aboard the voyaging canoe Hokule’a, on Thursday in Honolulu. Crew member ...