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Federal funding will allow Rochester scientists and their European collaborators to study the feasibility of producing coherent gamma rays.

The remarkable preservation reveals intricate details about ancient burial customs.

The discovery includes “thousands of marble slabs” in “hundreds of different shapes” found in a submerged ancient city.

Renaissance astronomer Tycho Brahe, known for his studies of the heavens, was also a alchemist. A new study of glass shards reveals what Brahe was working with in his lab.

Researchers in Amsterdam discover how Rembrantd made the golden pigment in The Night Watch.

The X14-class solar flare, which erupted from the opposite side of the sun, was the most powerful of this solar cycle so far.

Juvenile and adult skeletons of Middle Jurassic Krusatodon from the Isle of Skye, Scotland, show that this mouse-sized mammaliaform had longer development and lifespan than modern mammals of similar mass.

Discussion surrounding the question, “What is real?” at the Moving Naturalism Forward workshop, October 2012. Participants include Sean Carroll, Jerry Coyne, Richard Dawkins, Terrence Deacon, Simon DeDeo, Daniel Dennett, Owen Flangan, Rebecca Goldstein, Janna Levin, David Poeppel, Massimo Pigliucci, Nicholas Pritzker, Alex Rosenberg, Don Ross, and Steven Weinberg. Visit https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/.… more information.

In this interview, I talk with Dr. Graham Oppy about his understanding of metaphysical naturalism. He defends the thesis that natural reality is coextensive with causal reality such that there are no causal entities that are non-natural.

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