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DNA carries the instructions for life, but additional molecular systems help determine how those instructions are used. New research in a sea anemone reveals an unexpected role for one of these systems.
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Physicists in China have observed five phases in localization physics within a single quantum system. Using an advanced photonic platform, the team, led by Yucheng Wang and Jingyun Fan at the Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, has demons…
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Our ancient four-legged ancestors didn't have an amphibian-like life cycle when they began walking on land, according to a new study of rare fossils found near Chicago.
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NASA's Lucy mission visited the asteroid Donaldjohanson, known as "DJ," in April 2025 on its way to Jupiter's Trojan asteroids.
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Scientists have uncovered a surprising connection between quantum gravity and an exotic quantum state of matter that could explain why the universe isn’t expanding wildly fast. The study suggests that the very shape of space-time may protect the cosmological …
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Astronomers analysing a piece of Martian meteorite NWA 8171 have found garnet, a dark-red gem that could reveal the secrets of Mars's past.
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Six American flags were planted on the Moon between 1969 and 1972. Five are still standing — but after more than five decades of unfiltered solar UV, proton bombardment, and 600 thermal cycles between 120°C and minus 170°C, the dyes have almost certainly brok…
The "Pink Planet," formally known as GJ504b, was discovered in 2013 and is technically not a planet but rather a "planetary-mass companion."
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Tiny crystal grains trapped inside a meteorite may be the key that unlocks a hidden era in the Solar System's history of violence.
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Ultracold potassium atoms reveal that collision-driven resistivity can saturate, clarifying a long-running puzzle in transport physics.
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NASA selected a mission concept to research how space weather and dynamics within Earth’s atmosphere influence the space environment and help improve
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In the most comprehensive radio study of Europa thus far, astronomers bolster what's already known about the icy moon, and then some.
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Genes inherited from the now-extinct Denisovans are actively playing a role in the immune system of some people from Oceania.
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Researchers discover rotating spiral brain waves that travel across cortical networks, acting as a space-and-time clock for motor action.