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It's been nearly a century since scientists first theorized that the Universe was expanding, and that the farther away a galaxy was from us,... Read More
Before Voyager 1 and 2 explored the outer solar system, Pioneer 10 and 11 paved the way. Launched in 1972 and 1973, respectively, these... Read More
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Michaela Cordova, a research associate and lab manager at Oregon Health and Science University, begins by “de-metaling”: removing... Read More
Looking at the dinosaur skeletons on display at the American Museum of Natural History in New York (AMNH), it's easy to see them as solid... Read More
Over the past few weeks, the stories of three high-profile scientists accused of bullying have emerged: geneticist Nazneen Rahman,... Read More
We all know the names Isaac Newton or Charles Darwin. But somehow British naturalist Francis Willughby—a precocious talent who... Read More
Even though we still struggle with finding a satisfactory definition of life, that doesn't mean that we can't think about ways that life... Read More
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What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists,... Read More
On July 23, Dev Kumar Thapa and Anshu Pandey made an extraordinary claim online. It wasn't your garden variety fake news: By cramming... Read More
Sunday is National Aviation Day in the US. Created in 1939 by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to celebrate aviation and the birthday of... Read More
If you're ever unlucky enough to have a car with metal tires, you might consider a set made from a new alloy engineered at Sandia National... Read More
In a new study in cells, University of Illinois researchers have adapted CRISPR gene-editing technology to cause the cell's internal... Read More
Scientists have revisited – and confirmed – one of the most famous textbook examples of evolution in action.They showed that... Read More
At Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), physicist Professor Thomas Schimmel and his team have developed a single-atom transistor, the... Read More
For decades scientists aspired to modify the code of life. Tom Whipple meets Jennifer Doudna, who succeeded Read More
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Brown fat tissue in the body can burn enormous amounts of energy to generate heat, and studies in humans and animals have suggested that... Read More
Sauna bathing is an activity used for the purposes of pleasure, wellness, and relaxation. Emerging evidence suggests that beyond its use for... Read More
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