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Researchers have reproduced the entire biochemical pathway for how coca plants make cocaine in another plant, which could help people manufacture the drug for scientific study

From black holes to baby star nurseries, the universe has never looked more beautiful.

The discovery, known as the 'Dunscore hoard', is made up of more than 8,400 silver coins that date from the 13th and 14th centuries.

Contrary to expectations, researchers found older adults who live in countries with greater age bias had better health outcomes than those who lived in countries with less age bias. The study found older people tend to l...

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Study reveals a signaling pathway that controls the formation of synapses between pyramidal neurons and inhibitory neurons expressing the parvalbumin protein.

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The abstract notion that the whole can be found in each part of something has for long fascinated thinkers engaged in all walks of philosophy and experimental science, from Immanuel Kant on the essence of time to David B...

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On Friday, November 18, a test using collisions of lead ions was carried out in the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and provided an opportunity for the experiments to validate the new detectors and new data-processing system...

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Paleontologists in China have examined the remarkable gut remnants of a birdlike dinosaur that lived more than 100 million years ago.

Attacks on Ukraine's power grid took all 15 of the nation's nuclear reactors offline for the first time ever. Russia also retains control of Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant, the largest nuclear power station in Europe

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Observations of a huge test satellite that launched in September have fuelled concerns about the impact a planned fleet could have on astronomy

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Having drones on strings attached to a person could provide a more realistic simulation of interacting with physical objects in virtual reality

Scientists from QuTech and Eindhoven University of Technology have taken a next step in qubit research. Qubits are one of the building blocks of a future quantum computer. The researchers--including Sasa Gazibegovic, Gha...

November 15, 2022 marked a milestone for our species, as the global population hit 8 billion. Just 70 years ago--within a human lifetime--there were only 2.5 billion of us. In AD1, fewer than one-third of a billion. So h...

A team of researchers working at the National Ignition Facility, part of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, has found that covering a cylinder containing a small amount of hydrogen fuel with a magnetic coil and firi...

The Higgs boson, the fundamental subatomic particle associated with the Higgs field, was first discovered in 2012 as part of the ATLAS and CMS experiments, both of which analyze data collected at CERN's Large Hadron Coll...