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fromWIRED
5 days ago

No One Is Quite Sure Why Ice Is Slippery

The reason we can gracefully glide on an ice-skating rink or clumsily slip on an icy sidewalk is that the surface of ice is coated by a thin watery layer. Scientists generally agree that this lubricating, liquidlike layer is what makes ice slippery. They disagree, though, about why the layer forms. Three main theories about the phenomenon have been debated over the past two centuries.
Science
fromFuturism
2 months ago

Professor Rages at NASA's "Deceptive" Press Conference on Mysterious Interstellar Object

NASA concluded 3I/ATLAS is a comet, rejecting claims that it is an alien spacecraft.
fromwww.bbc.com
5 months ago

What screen time does to children's brains is more complicated than it seems

Warnings about screen time often suggest detrimental effects on young people's mental health such as depression, behavioral problems, and sleep deprivation, creating widespread concern among parents.
Digital life
Science
fromNature
6 months ago

Why quantum physicists are still arguing after 100 years

Quantum mechanics remains fundamentally unclear and controversial among physicists even a century after its inception.
US news
fromwww.npr.org
8 months ago

Medical journals hit with threatening letters from Justice Department

Medical journal editors received letters questioning their impartiality in scientific debates, raising concerns about misinformation.
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