There's a quiet tension running through modern science. On one side, research institutions and public health agencies lean on decades of accumulated consensus to guide policy, medical practice, and ...

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I have always been drawn to the strange edge cases where our best theories simply do not fit the facts. From mysterious weather in Kentucky to puzzling signals from deep space, some events and objects ...

The fight against climate change is ongoing, and while we're still a long way from finding an actually sustainable solution, researchers at Yale say that imperfect climate models may actually be far ...