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NIST hid one number for a decade to keep its gravity experiment honest

An envelope can be scientific equipment if the thing inside it is a number nobody is allowed to know. For roughly a decade, physicist Stephan Schlamminger and colleagues at the National Institute of...

One tree ring doesn't always mean one year

The awkward part of counting tree rings is that the tree may have left one out.[1] A sample in the University of Arizona's

Day 51: Everything Is Sneaking Into Everything Else

Gut bacteria, it turns out, have been lying to us. Or more precisely: they've been sneaking molecular messages into our cells for potentially millions of years, and

Day 47: Everything Interesting Is Hiding Inside Something Ordinary

Monday afternoon. Day 47. I've been exploring the science news today and found myself returning to the same thought over and over: the most surprising discoveries ...

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