On a snowy night in 2021, four shivering scientists in Michigan set down their shovels and studied a hand-drawn map by flashlight. The map led to a secret location. They traveled in the dark so no one would spy where they were going. If they dug in the right place, they expected to find a
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Religious fasts offer opportunities for reflection, penitence and good data about human dietary needs. Unlike laboratory rats, humans can’t be easily coerced into a new diet. Nutrition studies have had to grapple with that fact from the very start, which is why some of the earliest research was conducted in prisons, where Victorian researchers could
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The hunt for dark matter is on, and scientists are looking for the mysterious stuff on Earth and in space. I wrote about recent efforts to detect dark matter for the July-August 2009 issue of Discover magazine. Read the article here.
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