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Cosimo Rusconi (l.) and Oriol Romero-Isart (r.) play with a levitron to illustrate their work on nano magnets. Credit: IQOQI Innsbruck/M.R.Knabl Already in 1842, British...

Total solar eclipse corona. Credit: © Kenneth Keifer / Fotolia Researchers have pinpointed the date of what could be the oldest solar eclipse yet recorded....

A whale named 'Spitfire' swims in the waters off the island of Hallaniyah in southern Oman. Scientists from WCS, AMNH, and the Environment Society...

Bacteria (green) inside human pancreatic cancer cells (AsPC-1 cells). The cells' nuclei are stained blue while their cytoplasm is stained orange. Credit: Weizmann Institute of...

Do new cancer drugs actually work? Credit: © stevecuk / Fotolia Even where drugs did show survival gains over existing treatments, these were often marginal, the...

These are polymetallic nodules with Plenaster craigi. White line is 1 cm. Credit: Adrian Glover, Thomas Dahlgren, Helena Wiklund Less than half of our planet's surface...

Tasbacka danica. Credit: Johan Lindgren Researchers from North Carolina State University, Lund University in Sweden and the University of Hyogo in Japan have retrieved original pigment,...

Sea turtle eggs exposed after hurricane-driven storm surge washed away sand and dunes where they were incubating. Photo taken Sept. 13, 2017, at Archie...

Earth from space. Credit: © Vadimsadovski / Fotolia Humans have so profoundly altered Earth that, some scientists argue, our current geologic epoch requires a new name:...

The Chao volcano in northern Chile with a lava coulée approx. 14.5 km long (centre of picture). The composition of the lava matches that...

Castle geyser eruption Yellowstone. Credit: © bennymarty / Fotolia A new geological record of the Yellowstone supervolcano's last catastrophic eruption is rewriting the story of what...