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In the hunt for minerals needed in electric car batteries, some companies are turning to the deep sea. But mining this ecosystem could threaten its very existence.

A researcher won a bet by performing an experiment a colleague said wouldn't work. The result was the largest quasicrystal ever made

Researchers have discovered that the neurotransmitter orexin, not the stress hormone noradrenaline, regulates pupil size, challenging prior understanding. Orexin neurons affect pupil size in response to emotional states ...

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE My New Turing Test Would See if AI Can Make $1 Million Mustafa Suleyman | MIT Technology Review “We need something better [than the Turing Test]. Something adapted to this new phase of AI. …Wh...

From predicting the existence of black holes to being insulted by Einstein -- J. Robert Oppenheimer led an intriguing life. Here are eight facts you didn't know about the father of the atomic bomb.

Lightning is terrifying, but it's not always deadly. Here's what it does to the human body.

Pygmy right whales are evolutionarily distinct and may be part of a whale family long thought to be extinct

New fathers with a history of antidepressant use are over 30 times more likely to require such treatment again in the first year after their child's birth. The study, which analyzed over 500,000 primary care electronic h...