Science Archives

No, CERN Didn’t Open a Portal to Another Dimension in July 2022 CERN has long been a favorite obsession for conspiracy theorists.

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Do These Pics Really Show Green Skies During a South Dakota Storm? Not all photographs need filters to appear moody.

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Does This Video Show a ‘Perpetual’ Marble Machine? In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics!

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Does This NASA Photo Show a ‘Portal’ and ‘Wall’ on Mars? It's either a door leading to another celestial dimension ... or part of a rock.

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No, NASA Does Not Plan To Send ‘Nude Pics’ into Space Snopes spoke with NASA and the lead author of a popularly cited study to clarify.

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No, a ‘Potentially Hazardous’ Asteroid Isn’t Buzzing Earth in May 2022 We're not getting another Chelyabinsk, despite what some say.

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Is Russia Leaving the International Space Station? For context, the head of the Russian space agency has threatened that the station could...

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Did Mattel Send Barbie Dolls into Space? The toy company is encouraging more kids to go into STEM fields.

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Is This a Single Drop of Seawater Magnified 25 Times? Copepods, cyanobacteria, and diatoms — oh my!

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Was This Cape Spun from the Silk of Golden Orb Spiders? It was said that a team of 80 spent five years milking over 1.2 million...

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Are Electric Vehicles and Batteries Bad for the Environment? We broke the viral Facebook post down claim by claim.

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Does This Photo Show a Hole Drilled on Mars? The diameter was said to measure slightly smaller than a U.S. dime.

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