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Chemists at Scripps Research have made a discovery that supports a surprising new view of how life originated on our planet. In a study published...

American politicians have long been expected to uphold a certain veneer: powerful, influential and never vulnerable. New Penn State research has found that these...

From an observatory high above Chile's Atacama Desert, astronomers have taken a new look at the oldest light in the universe. Their observations, plus a...

Mollusks build shells to protect their soft tissues from predators. Nacre, also known as the mother of pearl, has an intricate, highly regular structure...

Deforestation dropped by 18 percent in two years in African countries where organizations subscribed to receive warnings from a new service using satellites to...

Researchers demonstrate a new technique for suppressing back reflections of light—better signal quality for sensing and information technology. Microresonators are small glass structures in which...

813 years of annual river discharge at 62 stations, 41 rivers in 16 countries, from 1200 to 2012. That is what researchers at the...

Until recently, scientists believed that only very massive nuclei could have excited zero-spin states of increased stability with a significantly deformed shape. Meanwhile, an...

Research from the University of Adelaide has found that some species of fish will have higher reproductive capacity because of larger sex organs, under...

A desalination membrane acts as a filter for salty water: push the water through the membrane, get clean water suitable for agriculture, energy production...

Diamond is the hardest material in nature. But out of many expectations, it also has great potential as an excellent electronic material. A joint...