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A Michigan man made the discovery of a lifetime when he stumbled on glowing rocks on the beaches of Lake Superior. The rocks, which he named... Read More
The famous thought experiment known as Schrödinger's cat implies that a cat in a box can be both dead and alive at the same time —... Read More
In July of this year, researchers set out to track a group of 50 to 60 belugas in Canada's St. Lawrence River, hoping to learn more about the... Read More
On the dwarf planet Ceres—the largest body in the asteroid belt—icy volcanic activity may be a regular occurrence rather than a... Read More
It was a balmy summer in 1998 when I first became aware of the confounding weirdness of neutrinos. I have vivid memories of that day, as an... Read More
Humans and other mammals react to stressful situations through a series of well-orchestrated evolutionary adaptations. When faced with a... Read More
The first time I heard a mathematician use the phrase, I was sure he'd misspoken. We were on the phone, talking about the search for shapes... Read More
The fossil record could be misleading us about when mass extinctions took place, suggest new findings based on the study of deep sedimentary... Read More
Of course you can. In fact, you likely have a device in your home right now that not only traps light and stores it—it keeps it cold,... Read More
One of the biggest drawbacks of electric vehicles – that they require hours and hours to charge – could be obliterated by new... Read More
How do you know where anything is in space? Sure, you can say, “Oh, that star, it's the one in the middle of the Big Dipper,” but... Read More
Last year, three physicists shared the Nobel Prize for their detection of gravitational waves produced by colliding black holes. Just two... Read More
A group of scientists at the University of Tokyo has recorded the largest magnetic field ever generated indoors -- a whopping 1,200 tesla, as... Read More
Covert sensing of objects around a corner may soon become a reality.Aristide Dogariu, a University of Central Florida Pegasus Professor of... Read More
The line that separates stars from brown dwarfs may soon be clearer thanks to new work led by Carnegie's Serge Dieterich. Published by The... Read More
A new analysis is shedding light on the earth's first visible animals: the 570-540-million-year-old, enigmatic Ediacara biota.Ediacaran... Read More
Sometimes kids trip and fall, and their teeth take the hit. Nearly half of children suffer some injury to a tooth during childhood. When that... Read More
Although some people embrace the saying "bald is beautiful," for others, alopecia, or excessive hair loss, can cause stress and anxiety. Some... Read More
Last week in National Harbor, Maryland, DARPA celebrated its 60th anniversary by showcasing its latest breakthroughs and emerging research... Read More
Until now, the neuroscience programs at DARPA, the mad science wing of the Department of Defense, have focused on technologies for... Read More
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A new measurement at CERN tells us something about the way particles travel through interstellar space. Which in turn may help a satellite on the International Space Station find evidence for Dark Matter.One of the satisfying and sometimes wonderful things about science is the way information from very different experiments can combine to tell us something new. A couple of weeks ago Michael Winn, Read More
The CRISPR patent dispute between the University of California, Berkeley, and the Broad Institute is finally over. As almost everyone following the case predicted, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed Monday the U.S. patent office's decision that there was “no interference-in-fact†between UC Berkeley's patent application and more than a dozen Broad patents. Read More
