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For decades, Antarctica seemed to defy global warming. Since satellites began monitoring the poles in the late 1970s, the ...

When the Atlantic herring colonized the Baltic Sea thousands of years ago, it needed to adapt to the low salinity. Genes with ...

Astronomers have discovered two early-universe galaxies where the central black holes appear to have grown far faster than ...

Artificial intelligence has crossed a threshold in the modern workplace. It is being used for everything from helping ...

You're a long-necked Titanosaur grazing the plains and chomping away on tree leaves about 100 million years ago in the Early ...

Recent satellite remote sensing surveys have identified 280 stone structures spread across the Atbai desert in Sudan. Twenty ...

We are all born completely helpless, with little of the knowledge and skills we will need to survive as adults. Even our ...

Astronomers who simulate galaxies do not always get the same result, even when they start from identical conditions. New ...

The message to students used to be simple: "Just say no." But in today's schools, that message is not only outdated, it may ...

From navigation to solar weather forecasting, many different areas of research require space-based sensors to measure Earth's magnetic field as accurately as possible at any given moment. So far, ...

Have you ever wondered why freshly brewed coffee smells so delicious, but tastes bitter? New research from the University of ...