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Walk into any casino, and the logic is undeniable: given a large enough sample size, the house...
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Walk into any casino, and the logic is undeniable: given a large enough sample size, the house always wins. Jackpots are paid out, big hands are won, but this does not matter. Casinos always trust the...
In a story that sounds straight out of science fiction, Colossal Biosciences is leading a bold effort to bring the wooly mamoth back to life. A species that has not roamed our planet in over 4, 000...
Convenience doesn’t have to cost the world. As Vance Packard wrote in “The Waste Makers” (1960), “Our economy is such that we cannot afford to take care of things. It is...
Every year, humans produce about 400 million metric tonnes of plastic waste, almost double what was produced in 2000. Unlike organic material, synthetic plastics are created to be resilient and hard...
Why did the mushroom get invited to the party? Because he was a fun-gi! The next time you take a walk through a forest consider that you may be walking above the ultimate green material of the...
Fireflies. Jellyfish. Fungi. Bacteria. All very different organisms that can share 1 common trait: Bioluminescence. Bioluminescence is the ability for an organism to emit light. For decades it was...
As the famous English novelist Lewis Carroll once said, “imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality”. For decades this has been true of science fiction books, films and TV series. These...