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Picture 500 million cars stacked in rows. That's how much carbon—about 1,000 petagrams, or one billion metric tons—is locked away in Arctic permafrost. Currently, scientists...

The discovery of a tiny insect fossil is unearthing big questions about the global movement of animals and the connection to changes in climate...

Is there anyone out there? This is an age-old question that researchers have now shed new light on with a study that calculates there...

Ever wonder how land animals like humans evolved to become smarter than their aquatic ancestors? You can thank the ground you walk on. Northwestern University...

The Higgs boson was discovered by the ATLAS and CMS Collaborations at CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) in 2012 through its decays into pairs...

Like most galaxies, the Milky Way hosts a supermassive black hole at its center. Called Sagittarius A*, the object has captured astronomers' curiosity for...

Pittsburgh research coauthored by team from the Department of Physics and Astronomy reveals that optical fields have the ability to modify electronic properties of...

Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg can add to her list of personal accolades, including TIME magazine's Person of the Year, a group of spiders...

Today, stars fill the night sky. But when the universe was in its infancy, it contained no stars at all. And an international team...

In the world of materials science, sometimes main discoveries can be found in unexpected places. While working on the resistivity of a type of...

An exotic physical phenomenon known as a Kohn anomaly has been found for the first time in an unexpected type of material by researchers...