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The radiation levels experienced by the frogs living in Chernobyl have not affected their age or their rate of aging. These ...

The theory of special relativity is rife with counterintuitive and surprising effects, the most famous of which are length ...

From time to time, when Earth's tectonic plates shift, the planet emits a long, slow belch of carbon dioxide. In a new ...

A study has found concerning new evidence of long-term declines in coral reef fish around highly visited inshore islands of ...

When it comes to electrically conductive nanomaterials, graphene—stronger and lighter than steel and more conductive than ...

Decades-old policies aimed at improving air quality may also be accelerating global climate change, warns a recent study ...

Mirroring the mechanisms that make human faces and bodies—and those of many multicellular organisms—symmetrical, bee colonies ...

A Chinese rover has found new evidence to support the theory that Mars was once home to a vast ocean, including tracing some ...

The Hubble Space Telescope was carried to space inside the space shuttle Discovery and then released into low-Earth orbit.

Superconductivity is the phenomenon by which, at sufficiently low temperatures, electric current can flow in a metal with no ...

A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study is the first to describe an electrochemical strategy to capture, concentrate ...