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A "potentially hazardous" space rock the size of a football stadium is about to reach its closest point to our planet for more than 100 years, and it won't get this close to us again for centuries more.

Severe memory loss, akin to today's dementia epidemic, was extremely rare in ancient Greece and Rome, indicating these conditions may largely stem from modern lifestyles and environments. Analyzing classical texts, the s...

Scientists think the toothy fish may have used its mismatched jaw to trap prey.

Never smile with your teeth showing (or even yawn) at a monkey, as this could be considered threatening.

Photonic integrated circuits are an important next-wave technology. These sophisticated microchips hold the potential to substantially decrease costs and increase speed and efficiency for electronic devices across a wide...

Researchers unveiled the most extensive single-neuron projectome database to date, featuring over 10,000 mouse hippocampal neurons. The study provides an unprecedented view of the spatial connectivity patterns at the mes...

Sam was six months old when he first strapped a lightweight camera onto his forehead. For the next year and a half, the camera captured snippets of his life. He crawled around the family's pets, watched his parents cook,...

A new study utilizes advanced Neuropixels probes to unravel the complexities of how the human brain plans and produces speech. The team identified specific neurons in the prefrontal cortex involved in the language produc...

Preparations are underway for a third attempted launch of the enormous Starship rocket after the first two test flights both ended in explosions

Through experiments in macaques, scientists have mapped how a range of organs - including the heart, liver and skin - change their interactions during pregnancy, and they expect much of this will also apply in people

Riding aboard a SpaceX rocket, Intuitive Machines' Nova-C lander is expected to lift off in mid-February, though the target window has not yet been announced.

Earth's crust once formed a dense "root" supporting Colombia's northern Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta mountains, but new research suggests this prop sank into the mantle millions of years ago.

A European XFEL team at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology has tested a mock-up coil of the superconducting undulator pre-series module (S-PRESSO) designed for an upgrade of the European XFEL. It achieved a record-br...

Christopher Parzyck had done everything right. Parzyck, a postdoctoral researcher, had brought his nickelate samples--a newly discovered family of superconductors--to a synchrotron beamline for X-ray scattering experimen...

Molecules called photoacids could offer a more energy-efficient way to release carbon dioxide captured from the air in order to store or reuse it

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In recent years, optical vortices have attracted extensive attention in laser advanced manufacturing because of their annual intensity distribution and orbital angular momentum.

A layered material reflects infrared and visible light to mimic the appearance of leaves, and could be used to camouflage objects against foliage in forest settings

Shiba inus and miniature dachshunds are among the longest-lived dog breeds while flat-faced dogs tend to die younger, a comprehensive study of UK pets has found

In research that could jumpstart work toward the quantum internet, researchers at MIT and the University of Cambridge have built and tested an exquisitely small device that could allow the quick, efficient flow of quantu...

Excavation workers have finished carving out the future home of the gigantic particle detectors for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment. Located a mile below the surface, the three colossal caverns are...

A team from TU Dortmund University recently succeeded in producing a highly durable time crystal that lived millions of times longer than could be shown in previous experiments. By doing so, they have corroborated an ext...