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Rare photographs, casts of Lincoln's (giant) hands and more

And is it already too late?!

The U.S. government needs only three degrees of separation to look at Kevin Bacon's phone records.

By discouraging a promising science project, Kickstarter could be encouraging corporate monopolies, enabling sloppy legislation, and keeping cool glow-in-the-dark plants out of our houses.

Stars appear to twinkle, planets don’t. Here's why.

Studies of twins suggest that faith is influenced by genes.

A Slate investigation finds no merit in one writer's claim that she's allergic to genetically modified corn.

Really, really old

Goodbye, East Coast.

The app's creators think of it as "lockout insurance."

What changes in language use can tell us about society

A new report on the city of Aleppo shows where the damage has hit--and it's anything but evenly distributed.

Don't be surprised to see a few of these inching their way along cables above your head soon.

New laws banning abortion after 20 weeks are based on pseudoscience -- and real research proves it conclusively.

The controversial studies are meant to help predict what the virus will do next.

Do you measure tequila shots in an Erlenmeyer flask? Read on.

Avery Ashley wants to make a deal: his home-roasted coffee beans for lab equipment that'll let him grow his first batch of glowing bugs, so he can one day bioengineer yeast cells into inexpensive food.

Even viewed as abstractions the data have a forceful impact.