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Damage from two strong earthquakes that rattled Southern California on July 4 and July 5…
Astronomers obtained the first detailed face-on view of a gaseous disk feeding the growth of…
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The galaxy NGC 1156 resembles a delicate cherry blossom tree flowering in springtime in this…
Two NASA space telescopes have teamed up to identify, for the first time, the detailed…
NASA successfully demonstrated Tuesday the Orion spacecraft’s launch abort system can outrun a speeding rocket…
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A new study has revealed how fast some distant, rapidly growing supermassive black holes are…
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…
NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered a world between the sizes of Mars…
A prevailing theory in neuroscience holds that people make decisions based on integrated global calculations…
Cyanide and carbon monoxide are both deadly poisons to humans, but compounds containing iron, cyanide,…
Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is…