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The stuff that leaves our toilets can wreak havoc, but it also has the potential to solve our greatest challenges.

Why Scientists Don’t Want Our Poop to Go to Waste

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Beneath any valuable study, you’ll find a web of research, institutions, humans — and, of course, money. Trust in science hinges on the process.

How Science Is Made: A Glimpse of the People, Institutions and Money Behind It

A massive galaxy cluster is intertwined with threads of dark matter (blue) and gas (orange). The formation of large-scale structures seen today are thought to have originated during the universe’s mysterious “dark ages.” (Credit: Illustris Collaboration)

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A radio telescope planned for the farside of the moon could plug a 500-million-year hole in cosmic history.

A Telescope on the Moon Could Illuminate the Dark Ages of the Universe

The K in T2K refers to Kamioka, Japan, where the Super-Kamiokande Detector resides deep
underground. The detector uses this giant, water-filled cylinder to detect neutrinos shot from
180 miles away in Tokai — the T in the project’s name. Recent data show how neutrinos and
antineutrinos change from one type to another — at different rates — as they travel. (Credit: Kamioka Observatory/CIR )

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New particle accelerator data from the T2K experiment could finally tell us where all the antimatter went.

Where Did the Universe's Antimatter Go? Scientists Inch Closer to Solving the Mystery

Cryptozoology is a type of fringe science that attempts to prove the existence of creatures from folklore, such as Bigfoot. (Credit: CineBlade/Shutterstock)

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From Bigfoot to the anti-vaccine movement, fringe theories are everywhere. Where do they come from?

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