New Jersey experienced a 4.8 magnitude earthquake, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. Here is the science behind the cause and the Ramapo Fault.
Arizona State University’s College of Health Solutions has responded to the surge in interest in blue zones — those rare communities where some of the oldest people on Earth reside — with a new, self-paced introductory course called Blue Zones Advocate.
The jury selection for former President Trump's hush money trial is set for Monday. MSNBC legal contributor Katie Phang provides analysis on the case and Washington Post reporter David Nakamura weighs in.
PSU — Ahead of Monday's solar eclipse, a professor at Pittsburg State explains just how rare this astronomical event is and how it takes place. "The simple version is -- the moon gets in the way of us seeing the sun," said Dr. David Pearson, PSU Assistant Professor of Physics. But there's so much more []
A strong earthquake centered outside of New York City rattled much of the East Coast on Friday morning.The earthquake — which the U.S. Geological Survey said was magnitude 4.8 — occurred at about 10:20 a.m. The quake was centered near Whitehouse Station, New Jersey, which is about 40 miles west of New York City, according to the USGS. So far, there have been no reports of injuries or damage, but many who felt the quake took to social media to describe the unusual experience. Here's what to know...
Sometimes people accidentally make good points while believing they are making the opposite point. Right before the eclipse, liberal activist David Pepper asked an easy-to-answer question whose answer is in fact informative — even if Pepper thought it was a stumper. Very few arguments in the past few years have been as annoying and smug […]
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If someone says, “Trust the science!” these days, it’s usually an effort to short-circuit debate over weighty policy issues. “Trust the science” has been deployed in the past five years to prevent debate over COVID school closures and mask mandates, over electric-car subsidies, and over sex changes for boys and girls. For my entire time […]
Functional beverages — or drinks promoted as offering mental or physical benefits beyond hydration — are growing in popularity around the world. Examples include American and Asian ginseng (an herb), ashwagandha (an evergreen shrub), eleuthero (a shrub), Rhodiola rosea (a flowering plant) and chaga (a mushroom). The Cleveland Clinic says adaptogens are known to trigger chemical reactions that can return the body to a more balanced state.
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Many millennials and Gen Zers have stopped believing in Christianity because they think that science and faith cannot coexist.
Perhaps the most bizarre property we’ve discovered about the Universe is that our physical reality doesn’t seem to be governed by purely deterministic laws. Instead, at a fundamental, quantum level, the laws of physics are only probabilistic: you can compute the likelihood of the possible experimental outcomes that will occur, but only by measuring the quantity in question can you truly determine what your particular system is doing at that instant in time. Furthermore, the very act of...