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A new look at Hubble images of galaxies could be a step toward illuminating the…
Researchers at the Universities of Zurich and Cambridge have discovered a new, exotic class of…
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MIT chemical engineers and neuroscientists have devised a new way to preserve biological tissue, allowing…
The remarkable exoplanet discoveries made by the Kepler and K2 missions have enabled astronomers to…
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New NASA research confirms that Saturn is losing its iconic rings at the maximum rate…
A team of astronomers has discovered the most-distant body ever observed in our Solar System.…
A series of new CubeSats now are in space, conducting a variety of scientific investigations…
For three weeks in October, Hubble’s eyes on the Universe closed. On the evening of…
A cheap and effective new catalyst developed by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley,…
Paleontologists from Russia have described a new dinosaur, the Volgatitan. Seven of its vertebrae, which…
In the world of quantum computing, interaction is everything. For computers to work at all,…
Astronomers have captured one of the most detailed views of a young star taken to…
Researchers at MIT, Draper, and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have designed an ingestible capsule that…