The many different accounts of the crucifixion of Jesus find little support in historical sources. The reason is that antique sources generally lack descriptions of crucifixions, says Gunnar Samuelsson, University of Gothenburg, ...
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Jun 14, 2010
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Scientific knowledge is important in today's knowledge society. Research is the guarantor of the quality of knowledge, though it is often not clear how scientific research guarantees the reliability of knowledge. How different ...
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Feb 27, 2009
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Researchers from the United Kingdom hope that a new, publicly available database they have created will shrink, not grow, over time. That's because it is a compendium of the thousands of understudied proteins encoded by genes ...
Molecular & Computational biology
Aug 8, 2023
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Carrying out scientific experiments in space allows scientists to study and make drugs without gravity, which can lead to surprising results that improve research back on Earth. According to a cover story in Chemical & Engineering ...
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Nov 17, 2022
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The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physics will be awarded Tuesday, a day after two Americans and one British scientist were given the award for Physiology or Medicine.
General Physics
Oct 8, 2019
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A classicist, biologist and computer scientist all walk into a room—what comes next isn't the punchline but a new method to analyze relationships among ancient Latin and Greek texts, developed in part by researchers from ...
Social Sciences
Apr 5, 2017
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Around the world, between 40 and 50 volcanoes are currently erupting or in states of unrest, and hundreds of millions of people are at risk of hazards posed by these potentially active volcanos. Yet, despite the profound ...
Earth Sciences
Mar 10, 2022
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As the new space race continues, a team of top researchers says one thing needs to be cleared up—what exactly is a planet?
Astronomy
Dec 8, 2021
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If your coffee is too bitter, add a pinch of salt. If your salad isn't sour enough, add a pinch of salt. If your beer is too bitter, add a pinch of salt.
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Oct 3, 2022
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Red wine goes with meat; white wine goes with fish. Port goes with Stilton. Never drink wine after eating artichokes. These rules about how to pair wine with food have solid chemical underpinnings—but many others don't.
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