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What is Gene P53, what does it do and why is it important?

First, we need to start with basic genetics, to understand this you must be familiar with genetics. So what is genetics? The dictiona...

Many religions have their creation stories, about how a divine being created the universe. Science, too, has its own creation story.That story is about how the matter which now exists in the Universe came to be. The difference between these two stories, is that the one proposed by science can be tested and recreated. We know much about how matter formed way after the big bang, but physicists are now stuck. What w...

NASA's NuSTAR Helps Solve Riddle of Black Hole Spin

PASADENA, Calif. -- Two X-ray space observatories, NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) and the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton, have teamed up to measure definitively, for the first time, the spin rate of a bla...

I was baffled last year by the amount of people fell for the Kony Scam.

Right after watching it, I was just like: "Yeah, fuck this shit, biggest scam out"

But according to others it means I was stupid and an ass.

Huh? Who knew that it makes one stupid for not believing a scam?

If you are stupid enough to disregard...

Stephen Hawking is an extremely impressive man and a hero to me. Although I may not be disabled, it goes to show people with disabilities can be extremely smart to.

He has given so much hope and inspiration to people with similar or lesser disabili...

Hello, this is Kordell from the Administration team at Knowledge and Atheism.

So as you are aware, we use a free website, but once we hit 100 members as a gift you fans, I will buy a full domain name.

The reason I am not doing it now is that I don't want to pay about $70 and only hav...

Did Mars Previously Harbor Life? Is Life Sustainable there in the Future?

There are many theories and ideas surrounding this topic. Personally, I believe Mars did hold life. When considering the immense amount of data and research we have done on Mars, it is a logical hypothesis (for example, in 2010 the Mars Spirit ...

Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder

(ASKAP)

Some of you may be aware what this is, if not I’m going to explain it. As you can tell by the name, yes this is a radio telescope. But that’s not what’s important I am going to explain why Australia...

This large “flying V” is actually two distinct objects — a pair of interacting galaxies known as IC 2184. Both the galaxies are seen almost edge-on in the large, faint northern constellation of Camelopardalis (The Giraffe), and can be seen as bright streaks of light surrounded by the ghostly shapes of their tidal tails.