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A search for the ‘missing link’ in the chain of the emergence of SARS-CoV-2...
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To detect the quantum friction of empty space, scientists are going for a spin.A...
Particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) are incredibly useful – and usually...
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The European Parliament declared a climate emergency on Thursday, in a largely symbolic move...
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After keeping a dead star under close observation for over two decades, astronomers have...
A unique material that appears to decouple an object’s temperature from the amount of...
Australia may set a record for its hottest day this week, as temperatures soar...
The surface of the Sun is never still. Upon this burning ball of gas,...
Oregon State University research has provided the first complete, cellular-level look at what’s going...
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The desperate search for ways to help the world’s coral reefs rebound from the...
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Within just 50 light-years from Earth, there are about 1,560 stars, likely orbited by...
There are no gender differences in the brain when it comes to maths processing...
Alternative facts are spreading like a virus across society. Now it seems they have...
It took just 2 1/2 hours for the Titanic to sink after it collided...
Immersed in a ‘drug soup‘ of pharmaceutical pollutants, aquatic wildlife acts in ways that...
CHICAGO — It’s a strange mash-up, but it works: Algae living inside tadpoles’ blood...
Every 20 seconds, a wave of fresh cerebrospinal fluid rolls into the sleeping brain....
Flame retardants are going green. Using compounds from plants, researchers are concocting a new...
In a different reality, space might smell like almonds. After all, scientists surveying the...
When things heat up, most solids expand as higher temperatures cause atoms to vibrate...
Two sets of cosmic discoveries have garnered the 2019 Nobel Prize in physics. Half...
An elusive hypothetical particle comes in imitation form. Lurking within a solid crystal is...
Ice comes in many shapes and sizes, from mountainous icebergs to tiny flurries of...
There seems to be something large lurking in the far reaches of the Solar...
Shifting tectonic plates, not atmospheric carbon dioxide levels, controlled the strength of the powerful...
Quantum supremacy is here, researchers from Google claim. For the first time, a quantum...
Fiction is full of robots with feelings. Like that emotional kid David, played by...
We are quite literally having our brains washed every night. Neuroscientists have now produced...
Lightning is one of the most unpredictable phenomena in nature. It regularly kills people...
For the first time, a chemical potentially responsible for widespread vaping-related lung injuries and...
A leaky galaxy might be offering up clues about a vast cosmic makeover foisted...
Step aside, whiskey connoisseurs. Scientists have a new way to discern quality among bourbons. ...
By watching how atoms behave when they’re suspended in midair, rather than in free...
Sea levels rose 10 metres above present levels during Earth’s last warm period 125,000...
A forest watered by acid rain may be less able to slake its thirst....
It has long been thought that one of the reasons we humans developed large brains...
Software detected the woman almost six seconds before Uber’s self-driving car struck her, investigators...
Filling your house with potted plants might make you happier and more productive, but...
For the first time in more than 40 years, NASA scientists have opened up...
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An estimated 6 percent of people in the US and UK suffer from vitamin...
Everybody knows to get a good night’s sleep if they want to feel their...
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