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Researchers using the radio telescope ALMA (Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array) observed signals of oxygen, carbon,…
A surprise discovery in a Crimean cave suggests that early Europeans lived alongside some of…
A team of Yale chemists is one step closer to using the ribosome — the…
This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope Picture of the Week shows bright, colorful pockets of star…
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Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is…
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This Hubble Picture of the Week shows the spiral galaxy Messier 98, which is located…
Good fortune and cutting-edge scientific equipment have allowed scientists to observe a Gamma Ray Burst…
The Kepler mission and its extension, called K2, discovered thousands of exoplanets. It detected them…
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A group of astronomers led by Crystal Martin and Stephanie Ho of the University of…