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Astronomy

What Happens When Two Black Holes Nearly Collide?

Two black holes speed past each other in deep space—billions of times heavier than Earth, hurtling faster than bullets. They don’t crash. They don’t merge. They just…swerve. And in that dramatic cosmic near-miss, they send ripples through the very fabric of spacetime. We call them gravitational waves. And thanks to a surprising mashup of physics […]

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News

Science News Round Up, May 21, 2025

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Psychology

How to Catch a Social Media Manipulator in 27 Seconds

You scroll Facebook. Your aunt shares a political story. Then your high school friend. Then a news page you vaguely remember liking in 2014. Weird coincidence? Maybe. Or maybe you’re watching a digital puppet show—scripted, rehearsed, and performed by pages secretly working together. Here’s the kicker: researchers have now figured out how to spot these […]

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Society

Is Hate Speech a Gender Thing? Reddit’s Darkest Corners Say… Maybe Not

That might sound like the opening line of a lukewarm Twitter take, but it’s actually the central question of a groundbreaking study that dug deep into Reddit’s most extreme gendered echo chambers. Spoiler alert: It’s not as simple as “men vs. women.” In fact, when researchers crunched the numbers, scanned the language, and mapped the […]

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News

Science News Round Up, May 19, 2025

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Science News Round Up, May 16, 2025

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Chemistry

Secrets Behind the Bronze: How Medieval Doors Are Solving a 900-Year-Old Mystery

Picture it: a mysterious medieval craftsman named Barisanus, three towering bronze cathedral doors in southern Italy, and a scientific mystery hidden in the metal itself. No dragons—just centuries-old secrets revealed by high-resolution photography, chemistry, and a little-known sidekick called… metal shrinkage. Yup. Shrinkage. So how exactly did a bunch of medieval doors turn into the […]

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Science News Round Up, May 14, 2025

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Psychology

Your Phone Isn’t the Problem—But Where It Sits Might Be

Let’s be honest: your phone’s just sitting there, glowing softly, whispering sweet TikToks and unread group chats. You’re deep in a work task—laser-focused—until buzz, you’re checking memes, replying to texts, and wondering how you got here. What if I told you that simply moving your phone a few feet away—not locking it, not turning it […]

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