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Thanks to new technology that enables them to create simple tools, robots may be on…
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In July 2015, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy was being grilled by lawmakers…
Researchers have conducted a study in which mice voluntarily ate a dough containing THC, the…
Large-scale ‘disturbances’, including fires, harvesting, windstorms, and insect outbreaks, which kill large patches of forest,…
First cells on ancient Earth may have emerged because building blocks of proteins stabilized membranes.…
A new study published this week reveals the first evidence of a direct link between…
In a paper published today scientists have studied the Vela Pulsar, a neutron star in…
The dramatic loss of Arctic sea ice through climate change has only a “minimal influence”…
Though the brain is a very slow machine, its capabilities exceed typical state-of-the-art, ultrafast artificial…
Experiments in quantum physics confirm theoretically predicted deviation. Many phenomena of the natural world evidence…
A group of astronomers, including Penn State scientists, has announced the likely discovery of a…
For nearly 100 years, scientists thought they understood everything there was to know about how…
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope reveals the intricate, detailed beauty of Jupiter’s clouds in this…
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EPFL researchers recently developed an algorithm that maps out the media landscape and reveals biases…