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Image: Warner Bros. Pictures With their fanciful costumes and comedic personas, clowns seem like the epitome of joy. But these figures of fun also provoke a horrified response and have even inspired their own phobia. Although it’s not officially recognized in the American Psychiatric Association’s DSM-5 categorization of disorders, coulrophobia, the fear of clowns, is…

Scientists spotted the intermediate mass black hole in a molecular cloud like this one (Imae: X-ray: NASA/CXC/PSU/L. Townsley et al; Infrared: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Science fiction doesn’t exist to make movies about the stuff we know about—it explores the unknown physics, astronomy, biology and chemistry where real uncertainty about topics can lead to compelling, believable stories. That’s…

GIF The bowling alley of the abandoned Homowack Lodge in Spring Glen, New York. This area of the southern Catskills was once known as the Borscht Belt due to its popularity with Jewish vacationers from New York City. (Photograph: Pablo Iglesias Maurer, postcard published by Bill Bard Associates) In idyllic places like the Catskills and…

Photo: AP On Sunday evening, former secretary of state and presidential candidate Hillary Clinton endorsed Verrit, a “media platform for the 65.8 million” who supported her candidacy, immediately creating a minor Twitter firestorm. Clinton’s decision to hawk Verrit is regrettable for a number of reasons, including that this site looks like a terrible bet in…