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A current key to stabilizing climates across the Atlantic and beyond could be one-third weaker by 2040, a new...

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This stunning blue mask may represent the Aztec cycle of death and renewal....

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Researchers have made great strides to prevent deaths from fatal diseases, but the cures for some of them stil...

Chinese scientists claim they have made a converging energy beam weapon — but did they really, or have they be...

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Generative AI could saddle the planet with heaps more hazardous waste than ever before....

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Sharks are formidable fish, having survived multiple mass extinction over hundreds of millions of years. But h...

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How many of the 160 named volcanoes in the U.S. and territories do you know? If you live in Alaska you have a...

To explore the galaxy and hunt for resources, intelligent aliens might need to turn their home stars into natu...

The first ever stroller accessory designed to filter out air pollutants on the go — a gimmick or a sign of an...

A new study suggests that the DNA some modern Japanese people have inherited from ancient hunter-gatherers may...

Imagine going on a run and using your body heat to power your fitness tracker....

Does light behave more like a particle, or like a wave? Today we know the surprising answer. Here's why it too...

The demonstrator craft is an important proof-of-concept for the return of supersonic commercial operations....

"Butterfly disease" is a potentially fatal, inherited disorder that causes patients to blister very easily....

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Scientists published more than three dozen papers as part of the Human Cell Atlas, an effort to map the human...