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ITER, the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor, may be the grandest scientific experiment in the world. Initially ...

The surface of the Earth’s inner core may be changing, as shown by a new study from USC scientists that detected structural ...

Researchers at Rice University have developed a new method for performing chemical reactions using water instead of toxic ...

More than 80 domestic cats, among many other types of mammals, have been confirmed to have had bird flu since 2022 — ...

Short snouts and a flat profile - within a span of 100 years, humans have significantly changed the shape of the skulls of ...

Astronomers may have discovered a scrawny star bolting through the middle of our galaxy with a planet in tow. If confirmed, ...

While time travel is cool science fiction tech, it seems to directly contradict our current understanding of physics. But what about, instead of moving a whole person back in ...

Trees are dead inside. It's true: the xylem tissue that supports their trunks technically isn't alive. Archaeologists hate that because this problem, the old wood problem, can cause carb ...

(via Veritasium) The biggest problems in the world might be solved by tiny molecules unlocked using AI.

A complex molecular machine, the spliceosome, ensures that the genetic information from the genome, after being transcribed ...

In a groundbreaking discovery, researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled ...