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When you picture plastic in the ocean, bottles and bags floating on the surface probably come to mind. But that visible ...

Scientists have found surprising microbial communities living beneath Arctic sea ice — organisms that carry the genetic ...

Researchers led by the University of Missouri have identified a previously unknown genetic disorder that undermines nerv...

Researchers from Spain, China and the UK report a novel nanotechnology that reversed Alzheimer’s-like symptoms in mice b...

Researchers have discovered a surprising route to buried memories: briefly seeing and embodying a childlike version of y...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s continents were reshaped not by slow cooling alone but by blistering temperatures that tr...

New DNA analyses of teeth recovered from mass graves in Vilnius are rewriting the medical history of Napoleon’s 1812 ret...

The Southern Ocean has quietly soaked up a century of heat and carbon from human activity. New climate simulations sugge...

Emerging adulthood — roughly the ages between 18 and 25 — is often framed as a time of new freedoms: leaving home, start...

In an unexpected milestone for quantum communications, researchers in the United States have successfully teleported a q...

Strange, snake-like gullies that appear on Martian dunes each spring have long intrigued planetary scientists. New labor...

New large-scale research shows common stimulant medicines used for ADHD do more than sharpen focus: they appear to reduc...

Coronal rain—cool, dense blobs of plasma falling along the Sun’s magnetic loops—has puzzled solar physicists for decades...

For the first time, astronomers have detected complex organic molecules frozen in ice outside the Milky Way. Using the J...

Researchers have unveiled a novel refrigeration concept called ionocaloric cooling — a technique that uses charged parti...

Researchers have built a powerful, tunable laser small enough to sit on a microchip. This compact device promises faster...

Regular physical activity combined with omega-3 fatty acids may do more than improve heart health—they could also help p...

New research from the University of Chicago Medicine and Columbia University suggests a simple change at the grocery sto...

Researchers in the United States have developed a low-cost, light-driven technique that selectively destroys cancer cell...

A new meta-analysis suggests that transferring healthy gut microbes into people with depression can ease symptoms — espe...