In a recently published paper, NASA scientists use nearly 20 years of observations to show that the global water cycle is ...

Consider your hands. They are essentially identical in every respect bar one: They are mirror images of each other. Many of ...

A large international team of scientists has observed a phenomenon that astronomers didn’t ever expect to see happen in real ...

In a remarkable feat of chemistry, a Northwestern University-led research team has developed the first two-dimensional (2D) ...

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How much food did the world produce last year? What was the extent of wildfires? How many people died in disasters? While all of these issues are covered in the media in some form, they’re often ...

The Ségognole 3 rock shelter, known since the 1980s for its artistic engravings of two horses in a Late Palaeolithic style on either side of a female pubic figuration, has now ...

Physicists have spent more than a century measuring and making sense of the strange ways that photons, electrons, and other subatomic particles interact at extremely small scales. Engineers have spent ...

(via Sabine Hossenfelder) Nuclear fusion reactors require massive amounts of heat and pressure to re-create conditions similar to those at the center of the Sun. Cold fusion (sometimes called “Low ...

Scientists using the Hubble Space Telescope to study distant quasars – the brightest objects in the universe – have captured a rare image that raises new questions about how they form. Quasars can ...

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