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In 1963, inside a covert U.S. military base in northern Greenland, a team of scientists began drilling down through the Greenland ice sheet. Piece by piece, they extracted an ice core 4 inches across and nearly a mile long. ...

Recently, novel dietary approaches have been developed which aim to preserve health and prevent noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) such as rheumatoid arthritis and inflammatory bowel disease. An extensive body of scientific ...

Until the early 2000s, the only known planets were located in our own neighborhood, the Solar System. They broadly form two categories: the small rocky planets in the inner Solar System and the cold gaseous planets located ...

Animals, including humans, depend on accurate information to navigate the world. But we can easily succumb to deliberate misinformation or "fake news," fooling us into making a poor choice.

There's an old stereotype about the difference between cats and dogs. Dogs are loving and fiercely loyal, they say, while cats are aloof and indifferent. Most cat people probably disagree—I certainly find it hard to believe, ...

How we humans became what we are today is a question that scientists have been trying to answer for a long time. How did we evolve such advanced cognitive abilities, giving rise to complex language, poetry and rocket science? ...

I spent the majority of my life in the United States before relocating to the United Kingdom (UK) a few years ago. I quickly noticed the difference in primary healthcare structure. Healthcare in the U.K. is provided by the ...

Researchers at Uppsala university, Sweden, and Element Six, U.K., have, for the first time ever, demonstrated electrical control of valley transport in 3-D dual-gate diamond field-effect transistors. These results were published ...

In 2010, when scientists were preparing to smash the first particles together within the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), sections of the media fantasized that the EU-wide experiment might create a black hole that could swallow ...

On December 9, 2020, researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel published a study in the journal Nature titled "The global mass produced by man exceeds all living biomass". The article summary sets the scene: ...

This month has been a busy one for Mars exploration. Several countries sent missions to the red planet in June last year, taking advantage of a launch window. Most have now arrived after their eight-month voyage.

Editor's note: Amid record cold temperatures and skyrocketing energy demand, utilities across the central U.S. have ordered rolling blackouts to ration electricity, leaving millions of people without power. Energy expert ...