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Why microwaving grapes creates a dazzling plasma light show
It’s a crowd-pleasing party trick: Cut a grape in half, pop it in the microwave, hit “start” then sit back and watch the dazzling “grape balls of fire.” Now a team of Canadian scientists has figured out how grapes generate plasma in your kitchen.
Polar vortex: The science behind the cold
The polar vortex, a swirl of low-pressure air six miles up in the atmosphere, blasted much of the American Midwest and Northeast in late January 2019 with temperatures cold enough to bring on frostbite within minutes.

Some weather extremes are getting worse. Here's how scientists figure that out.

If you bled when you brushed your teeth this morning, you might want to get that seen to. We may finally have found the long-elusive cause of Alzheimer’s disease: Porphyromonas gingivalis, the key bacteria in chronic gum disease.
Adding new DNA letters make novel proteins possible
THE FUZZY specks growing on discs of jelly in Floyd Romesberg’s lab at Scripps Research in La Jolla look much like any other culture of E. coli. But appearances deceive—for the DNA of these bacteria is written in an alphabet that has six chemical letters
Investigation of NOAA climate scientists finds bupkis
During his run as chair of the House Science Committee, recently retired Texas Congressman Lamar Smith made a habit of accusing US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientists of manipulating data to exaggerate global warming. Smith did so a

Moderates are much better at figuring out when they're likely to be mistaken.
Saturn's iconic rings are disappearing, study says
It is one of the most admired planets in our solar system: Saturn. But a new study suggests that the ringed beauty will lose its most stunning feature. According to the study published in the journal Icarus, Saturn, the sixth planet from the sun and the o
CN Rail developes energon cubes
CN Rail is developing a product that essentially transforms crude oil into a solid product, which they say would be safer for the environment and more cost friendly compared to traditional oil shipping by train.
3 asteroids will fly past Earth on SaturdayDespite recent headlines like, "NASA asteroid WARNING: Three giant asteroids to pass Earth THIS SATURDAY," there is absolutely no need to worry. Nicole Mortillaro explains why.
Over the volcano
Climate change is shrinking the glacier atop B.C.'s Mount Meager and, says one expert, increasing the risk of a volcanic eruption
New antimatter gravity experiments begin at CERN
We learn it at high school: Release two objects of different masses in the absence of friction forces and they fall down at the same rate in Earth's gravity. What we haven't learned, because it hasn't been directly measured in experiments, is whether anti

The three academics had a very serious mission in all this: To expose what they call the 'identitarian madness coming out of the academic and activist left'
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