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Ultima Thule is weird.

During a recent Lyft ride, I discovered that my driver had never been to San Francisco and had just arrived that morning--I happened to be his first-ever passenger in the city. A San Diego college student visiting a frie...

(Science China Press) Recently, one research group from the Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Sciences, presented an interesting SnO2-CdS NW interlaced structure to fabricate stretchable UV photodetectors w...

Regardless of socioeconomic status, children who were overweight by age 7 had a higher risk of developing emotional problems by age 11, researchers report.

CT1 cells connect around 1400 areas in the fly brain. Each cell area works like a separate neuron, allowing CT1 to access information from the fly's eye and support local motion detection.

Pikachu will go where no (cremated) cat has gone before.

The second-largest emperor penguin colony in the world appears to be collapsing, after rough seas drowned all of its babies three winters in a row.

(Science China Press) How to obtain superhard nt-cBN from onion-like precursor? Recently, Prof. Zhisheng Zhao's research group from Yanshan University, China traced the effects of size and microstructure of onion-like pr...

(University of Plymouth) Researchers from the University of Plymouth's International Marine Litter Research Unit examined the degradation of five plastic bag materials widely available from high street retailers in the U...