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Observations of Faint, Planet-Size Star Help Weigh Its Millisecond Pulsar Companion A dense, collapsed star…
Much of star’s mass in 2019 tidal disruption ended up in symmetrical cloud that hid…
Choline Helps the Body Use an Essential Nutrient During a Baby’s Development The nutrient choline…
Gravitational microlensing turns up black hole candidate, one of 200 million in the galaxy. When…
Machine learning algorithm points to problems in mathematical theory for interpreting microlenses. Artificial intelligence (AI)…
Salamanders that live their entire lives in the crowns of the world’s tallest trees, California’s…
The manufacturing technique enables faster production, greater optical quality, and design flexibility. Researchers at the…
Photovoltaics may be more practical for long stays on Mars thanks to today’s light, flexible…
A new material created by University of California, Berkeley, researchers could reduce the energy required…
Monkeys routinely consume fruit containing alcohol, shedding light on our own taste for booze. For…
T. rex’s short arms may have lowered risk of bites during feeding frenzies. A new…
Repetitive DNA sequences around centromere show history of human genetic variation. Scientists lied a little…
Test of drug could prove role of hyperactive retinal cells in blindness, potentially leading to…
Marine invertebrates have preserved their ancient chromosomal structures for over 600 million years, revealing evolution’s…
Excess X-ray emissions from remnant four years after merger hint at bounce from delayed collapse.…
Using adaptive mesh refinement, supercomputer simulation narrows axion mass range. Physicists searching — unsuccessfully —…
Eliminating all animal agriculture within the next 15 years would drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions…