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For more than a century, fossils meant bones, shells and the occasional imprint of a leaf. Now, a wave of research is showing ...

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Surprised astronomers just discovered a world that blurs the line between planet and stellar remnant, hiding in a system ...

Canadians learned how plants make a rare natural substance—mitraphylline—with its potential for fighting cancer as a ...

Webb telescope discovered a bizarre exoplanet with carbon atmosphere, no hydrogen, orbiting a super-dense spinning star.

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Researchers have determined that condensates are electrically charged droplets that can induce voltage changes across the ...

In advanced chemistry labs and classrooms around the world, one rule has quietly endured for nearly a century. Introduced in ...

From new exoplanetary neighbors and a weakening dark energy to the best evidence for life on Mars and an interstellar comet ...

Harvard Medical School researchers have uncovered crucial insights into how an emerging class of antiviral drugs works.

Many common kitchen items contain hidden plastics or plastic-like materials, from coatings to linings to microplastic ...