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Parents are set up to fail here. They are not given a lot of scientific education, they are told go home and do your own ...

A startling discovery has reignited one of science’s oldest questions: where did life truly begin? Researchers analyzing a ...

How do we know the speed of light – and why does it have a speed limit at all? Leah Crane explores the history of one of the ...

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A Century Later' revisits the pages of Popular Science to see how yesterday’s bold predictions and groundbreaking discoveries have aged. A hundred years ...