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"Stranger Things" Season 5, Volume 2 finally reveals the origins of the Upside Down. Here’s how the wormhole works, what the ...

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“In 2021, French scientists put Edison’s claim to the test,” writes Dan Denis, a psychologist at the University of York, in The Conversation. The conclusions of that study were pretty clear from the ...

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A black hole inside a distant spiral galaxy is devouring material from the universe around it and creating winds at speeds never before seen by astronomers. The European Space Agency said that the ...

Imagine you’re standing in front of a closed door. Behind it is a teenager’s bedroom, and your task is to rate how messy it is on a scale of 1 to 10. But here’s the twist: you can’t open the door – ...