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Cosmology and quantum physics both offer tantalizing possibilities that we inhabit just one reality among many. But testing ...

As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

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Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...

But only in the last 70 years have we known for certain they were there. In 1956, physicists Clyde Cowan and Frederick Reines ...

An array of animals and plants survive winter in the subnivium, nature’s igloo. But climate change is threatening this hidden ...