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NASA’s Curiosity rover has spotted carbon-containing minerals that can tell scientists more about what ancient Mars’…
The Earth started as a mixture of gas and dust around the Sun and grew as it collided with asteroids and dust particles.
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A lot of sophisticated digital plumbing goes into delivering that streaming video to your phone, computer or TV.
A global study seeks insights into what helps people feel happy, healthy and satisfied – and what holds them back.
New research uses firefly flashing patterns to identify species and what they’re communicating.
Today’s radar technology can detect the minute movements when your heart beats or you take a breath. Machine learning…
AIs are notoriously opaque, even to the people who build them, which makes it hard to know why they fail. A new tool aims…
By listening to a frog call, adult bats can tell which prey are palatable and which are poisonous. Young bats must acquire…
Vets use acupuncture to treat health problems in animals large and small, particularly to manage pain and reduce inflammation.…
Since 1971, the US has led the world in funding cancer research and developing new treatments that have driven down death…
It’s extremely difficult to see how forces in a pile of sand are distributed between individual grains – a new experimental…
Taking a bath may not be your favorite thing to do, but it will help keep you clean and healthy.
An object’s color appears differently under different lighting and against different backgrounds − for different viewers.…
An astronomer breaks down 3 key components that allow researchers to make groundbreaking discoveries – and decide when…
Visual content, including manipulated images, is a staple of propaganda and political messaging. AI analysis shows that…
Under the guise of efficiency and fraud prevention, the federal government is breaking down data silos to collect and aggregate…
A study of US state legislators found that posting misinformation online was a winning strategy for boosting a politician’s…