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Animals living in the deepest ocean trenches have been found with plastic fragments in their gut, according to new research published Wednesday showing how...

Desert snakes slithering across the sand at night can encounter obstacles such as plants or twigs that alter the direction of their travel. While...

Scientists have reproduced in the lab how the ingredients for life could have formed deep in the ocean 4 billion years ago. The results...

Quantum computers will process significantly more information at once compared to today's computers. But the building blocks that contain this information – quantum bits,...

Strategies for limiting climate change must take into account their potential impact on water quality through nutrient overload, according to a new study from...

Buried deep within the dazzlingly intricate machinery of the human cell could lie a key to treating a range of deadly cancers, according to...

Researchers have used liquid metals to turn carbon dioxide back into solid coal, in a world-first breakthrough that could transform our approach to...

Characterizing and predicting how electrically-heated silicate glass behaves is important because it is used in a variety of devices that drive technical innovations. Silicate...

As computers advance, encryption methods currently used to keep everything from financial transactions to military secrets secure might soon be useless, technology experts warn....

Researchers in the College of Engineering and Computer Science have developed a material—a new kind of shape memory polymer (SMP)—that could have major implications...

In early times, the universe was an energetic mix of strongly interacting particles. The first particles to break free from this dense soup were...