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The world runs on metals, and not (just) the kind produced by long-haired musicians with monochromatic wardrobes.

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Using powerful microscopy tools as aids, they found that the kidney and heart were the only organs free of parasites in every ...

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If you ask a scientist how life appeared on Earth, they will usually begin the story in one of two places: A warm, ...

A new study, published in Nature Aging, mapped structural changes across dozens of human tissues, and found that different ...

As much as we now know about superconductivity – where a material conducts electrical charge without resistance or heat loss ...

At a depth of 3,277 meters (10,751 feet), the squid hovered above the muddy seafloor, gently undulating its two enormous fins ...

What the thieves left behind is sobering. Three silver vessels survived alongside the iron bracelet, along with much of the ornamentation from a ceremonial staff and some small gold objects. One of ...

With their help, the researchers fitted six narwhals with satellite-transmitting sensors between August 2017 and July 2020 to ...