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A colossal cliff system created as the supercontinent Rodinia broke apart may have exposed the heart of the Grand Canyon nearly a billion years before the Colorado River carved it. The ancient landscape could also help e...

The Korea Institute of Civil Engineering and Building Technology (KICT) has developed a new cubic equation of state (EOS) that provides a physical justification for a mathematical structure that the chemical and petroleu...

Scientists have identified exceptionally rare soft tissue preserved in a 450-million-year-old crinoid fossil, more than 200 million years older than the first dinosaurs. Its delicate tube feet offer a remarkable new wind...

Ozempic may work in the brain in almost the opposite way scientists expected, activating hunger-linked neurons that appear essential for sustaining fat loss. The surprising discovery in mice could reveal new targets for ...

Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter - or some even more exotic phenomenon

Researchers spotted an unusual gamma-ray signal in three galaxy clusters, which may be a telltale sign of dark matter - or some even more exotic phenomenon

Researchers from the MPIK in Heidelberg used an atomic gas as a time-dependent lens to shape and spectrally manipulate intense high-frequency laser pulses. This gas-based optical element could pave the way toward better ...

Researchers at the FAMU-FSU College of Engineering and the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, headquartered at Florida State University, have designed a new quantum computing architecture that uses magnetic levitat...

Is the universe as stable as we think it is? That's one of the big questions that particle physicists worldwide are preparing to answer with the Large Hadron Collider, or LHC-the world's most powerful particle ac...

A research team led by Yang Lu from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, The University of Hong Kong (HKU), has uncovered the microscopic physical nature of ultralarge elasticity in cov...

Extreme heat will become more common as the climate continues to warm. That will affect almost every facet of our health.

A personalised mRNA cancer vaccine has produced positive results in a final-stage trial involving skin cancer, raising hopes that this approach could work against many cancers

The James Webb Space Telescope has identified the most promising candidate yet for a black hole star, lurking 660 million years after the Big Bang. The hypothetical entity, which shines 100 billion times brighter than a ...

Researchers found 120 ancient inscriptions referring to a mysterious goddess known as "the Lady" in a cave in Valencia, Spain.

AI is like a genie. The way in which algorithms grant our wishes may make us regret letting them out of the bottle. The post Long Foreseen, the Problem of AI Alignment Is Finally Reality. Solving It Wont Be Easy. appeare...

New models of the carotid artery can be personalized for different people, revealing subtle differences in stroke risk.

For the past decade, depression has been linked to a shrunken hippocampus, which has a vital role in memory. But a large study using up-to-date scanning techniques suggests this may not be the case

Researchers have developed a novel model to accurately and efficiently predict the impact of "green water"-water washing onto the deck of an offshore facility during extreme wave conditions.

A mysterious burial in an underground water channel may help archaeologists understand a pre-Inca ritual in Peru.

What happened in the first moments of the universe-before the building blocks of life and the world we know today came into existence? Physicists at the CERN research facility in Switzerland are trying to answer this que...

The candela, the international unit of light in use for almost a century, forms the basis of photometry. According to a new study, measurements derived from it systematically misjudge the brightness of colored light sour...

Cats can identify each other by the scent of their pee. We now know why.