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Although it looks more like an entity seen through a microscope than a telescope, this…
Study of the world’s tropical forests pinpoints how much water plants put back into the…
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If our eyes could see high-energy radiation called gamma rays, the Moon would appear brighter…
In mice, new compound lifts molecular ‘brakes’ that normally slow the regeneration of blood stem…
Jupiter’s core may still be reeling from collision 4.5 billion years ago. A colossal, head-on…
Fossilized flies that lived 54 million years ago have revealed a surprising twist to the…
What would you get if you combined Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa with Boston Dynamic’s…
A team of physicists has uncovered a new state of matter—a breakthrough that offers promise…
At the human scale, controlling temperature is a straightforward concept. Turtles sun themselves to keep…
Consuming flavonoid-rich items such as apples and tea protects against cancer and heart disease, particularly…
Novel class of “ionic liquids” may store more energy than conventional electrolytes — with less…
A new study provides the most accurate estimate of the frequency that planets that are…
To understand the most ordinary matter in the universe — and the extraordinary things that…
Microbial communities living in deep aquatic sediments have adapted to survive on degraded organic matter,…