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Americans’ belief in God, the devil and other spiritual entities has fallen to a new low, according to a Gallup poll released on Thursday.

Seventy-four percent of Americans said they believe in God, while 69 percent said they believe in angels and 67 percent said they believe in heaven, the poll found. Slightly smaller shares — 59 percent and 58 percent — said they believe in hell and the devil.

Belief in all five spiritual entities has fallen between 3–5 points since 2016, the last time that Gallup polled Americans on the topic.

New work suggests four distinct star system types—and finds our own in the rarest category.

Scientists may have taken a significant step toward earthquake prediction, according to a recent study published in Science.

By analyzing GPS time-series data from almost 100 large earthquakes worldwide, they revealed evidence of a potential precursory phase that occurs 2 hours before a seismic rupture.

Interview from the Conference “Emergence and Panpsychism” in Munich 2011.

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The move signals Apple is taking recent advances in the technology seriously and is considering integrating them into future products.

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Our search for extraterrestrial life assumes alien life based on water and carbon, but could there be biochemistries based on other substances?

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A new experiment could finally answer the question ‘What is the strength of gravity?’ But it’s a hard test to do.

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1984 is a 1956 British black-and-white science fiction film, based on the 1948 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, depicting a totalitarian future of a dystopian society.

This is the first film adaptation of the story, directed by Michael Anderson and starring Edmond O’Brien as protagonist Winston Smith, and featuring Donald Pleasence, Jan Sterling, and Michael Redgrave.

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Frontier Communications Parent Inc. is sounding out investors regarding a roughly $1 billion bond deal that will repackage revenue from its secured fiber network, the latest in a string of companies trying to capitalize on fiber.