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This chart shows when each new sport joined the Olympic Games
This year’s Olympic Summer Games in Tokyo saw the addition of five new sports, out of which three will stick around.
Helmet worn at home shrank man’s brain tumor by a third
The new brain tumor treatment targets a cancer that kills 75% of patients within a year.
Robots may be more like animals than humans
Meet MIT’s Kate Darling, a robot ethicist who says that we should rethink our relationship with robots.
One man visited all 2964 bus stops in San Francisco — for science
Americans don’t like to ride the bus. There are ways to fix that.
How can we fix America’s police?
Three ideas could help create the police force that Americans want.
The other moral in Frankenstein and how to apply it to human brains and reanimated pigs
Some neurology experiments — such as growing miniature human brains and reanimating the brains of dead pigs — are getting weird. It’s time to discuss ethics.
How to take Earth’s inner temperature with erupted sea glass
Scientists look to erupted sea glass — lava that erupted in the ocean and was instantly chilled by the surrounding water — to take Earth’s temperature.
The strange case of the dead-but-not-dead Tibetan monks
For some reason, the bodies of deceased monks stay “fresh” for a long time.
What do Olympic gymnasts and star-forming clouds have in common?
When Olympic athletes perform dazzling feats of athletic prowess, they are using the same principles of physics that gave birth to stars and planets.