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Stanford scholar and former SEC Commissioner Joseph Grundfest shares insights on prediction markets, which are gaining popularity amid concerns over regulation and potential manipulation.
The peopling of South America has long been debated, with various routes proposed for how they spread across the subcontinent. However, routes along the Atlantic coast were typically much younger than their Pacific counterparts, leaving a significant gap in our…
Being out of work and education between the ages of 16 and 24 has long-term consequences for people’s employment, finances, physical and mental health in midlife, according to new UCL research. A new report by the UCL Centre for Longitudinal…
The White House is seen before sunrise ahead of the White House Easter Egg Roll on the South Lawn in Washington D.C., on April 6, 2026. Photo Credit: (NASA/Crystal R. Hines) NASA, Crystal R. Hines NASA’s Center of Excellence for…
Recently, Michael Hall, a doctoral candidate in the Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies Program, was invited to present his work exploring representation in gaming, “Dawnbreaker, the Curious Case of Decolonialism and Colonialism in Final Fantasy XIV, Dawntrail,” at the Popular…
The Sombrero galaxy’s name fits perfectly.
Earth’s moon is to be on the receiving end of a spent rocket stage in early August – the leftovers from a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch last year.
A new citizen science project invites the public to scan never-before-seen images from the Euclid Space Telescope in search of galaxies bending spacetime.
New experiments suggest that freezing and thawing on early Earth may have helped primitive cell-like structures grow and evolve. Tiny lipid bubbles behaved very differently depending on their membrane makeup—some fused into larger compartments and captured DNA more efficiently. These…
A new recipe of “quadratic gravity” could help to better define the picture of the Big Bang and the singularity that existed prior to the dawn of time.