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The underwater Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai eruption has already triggered a tsunami, a sonic boom and thousands of lightning bolts, and could now lead to acid rain

The laws of physics underlying everyday life are, at one level of description, completely known, and can be summarized in a single elegant--if quite complex--equation. That's the claim physicist Sean Carroll, an SFI Frac...

Unfamiliar voices seem to put the sleeping brain on alert in a way that familiar voices don't

As our electronic lifestyles have grown ever more complex, we have needed ways to bring it all together. With wires being too cumbersome, Bluetooth holds the key to ushering in the connected world we know today.

Rising levels of ground-level ozone in China and nearby countries are having a big effect on the yields of staple crops such as wheat, rice and maize

In a new study published in Physical Review Letters, researchers from Japan show that high-frequency plasma waves in the geospace can generate low-frequency plasma waves through wave-particle interactions by heating up l...

A model based on Earth's oceans and atmosphere explains how Mars could have been cold and wet 3 billion years ago

Being able to beam yourself into a robotic body has all kinds of applications, from the practical to the fanciful. Existing interfaces that could make this possible tend to be bulky, but a wireless electronic skin made b...

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have discovered 4,500-year-old "funerary avenues" alongside thousands of pendant-shaped tombs.

Individuals living with Type 1 diabetes must carefully follow prescribed insulin regimens every day, receiving injections of the hormone via syringe, insulin pump or some other device. And without viable long-term treatm...

Disrupting circadian rhythms, which change naturally on a 24-hour cycle, has been implicated in heart disease, but it is unclear how it leads to the condition. A research team investigated the function of a certain prote...

Plastic straws are increasingly being avoided for both health and environmental reasons, but the alternatives all have their downsides - until now

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The Great Library of Alexandria in Egypt was the most important repository of knowledge in the ancient world.