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The Hubble Space Telescope has been at work for almost three decades, but it's still learning new skills -- like how to squeeze an incredible 15,000 galaxies into a single image.

Aside from balloons and making our voice squeaky, what use is helium?

What is life? For much of the 20th century, this question did not particularly concern biologists. Life is a term for poets, not scientists, argued the synthetic biologist Andrew Ellington in 2008, who began his career s...

Many small devices require batteries, but they can be expensive and environmentally unfriendly. Paper batteries powered by bacteria may be the solution

(Lomonosov Moscow State University) A team of scientists from the Institute of Mechanics, MSU demonstrated how random fluctuations in the rotation speed and noises influence the number of vortexes in the Couette spherica...