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How Animals Communicate in Ways Humans Can’t Hear

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The History of Earth: A Journey Through Deep Time

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Cosmic Rays and Electron Avalanches Discovered as the True Origin of Lightning

Enceladus (Saturn's moon). Credit: NASA

Cosmic Rays May Hold the Secret to Life Hidden Beneath Alien Worlds

Top: JWST transmission spectra of K2-18 b. We show our reduction of the currently available NIRSpec and NIRISS data of K2-18 b. In this plot, the NIRISS data was binned down to the same resolution as the NIRSpec data (∆λ = 0.02 µm). Bottom left: Normalized RMS versus bin size for all NIRSpec spectroscopic light curves (the color scheme follows that of the top plot). The black lines indicate the expected RMS for white noise. Bottom right: Comparison of our reduction of the G395H data from Program 2722 against the reduction by Madhusudhan et al. (2023) of the same data, binned to the same resolution. No offsets were applied to any spectra in this figure. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.12622

Astronomers Stunned by Mysterious Ocean Planet Hiding in Distant Star System

Caption:Schematic of the MIT experiment: Two single atoms floating in a vacuum chamber are illuminated by a laser beam and act as the two slits. The interference of the scattered light is recorded with a highly sensitive camera depicted as a screen. Incoherent light appears as background and implies that the photon has acted as a particle passing only through one slit. Credit: Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Scientists Finally Prove Einstein Was Wrong About the Nature of Light

Schematic of the experimental circuit and working mechanism. A silver STM tip probes a single pyrrolidine molecule adsorbed on a Cu(001) surface. The molecule undergoes stochastic switching between two conformations in a double-well potential, as illustrated by the surface potential diagram and corresponding STM topographies below. Periodic electrical modulation enables rectification probing, revealing a Lorentzian frequency dependent transition that relates the state population to the relaxation time. Credit: Wilson Ho Lab

Scientists Unveil Hidden Quantum Signal That Lets Us See Molecules Move in Trillionths of a Second

RB-RNACap at different time points at room temperature. Credit: Wei Tao

Scientists Unlock a Pill That Programs Your Genes to Heal From Within

Chlorite container with snake and scorpion motifs. Top from Tepe Chalow, bottom from Bactria. Credit: Vahdati et al. 2025

This 4,000-Year-Old Girl Is Changing Everything We Know About Ancient History

Computer simulations of the Armea trilobite specimen mounted for use as a personal ornament. Credit: Archaeol Anthropol Sci (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-025-02266-8

Ancient Romans Wore Extinct Sea Creatures as Mysterious Amulets

Density of red-giant branch stars in the M81 Group, revealing the global structure of its stellar halo and providing group context for F8D1 (lower right) and its extended tidal stream. North is up and East is left. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.13349

A Ghost Galaxy That Defies the Laws of the Universe

Artist's depiction of a Dyson swarm. Credit: Vedexent at Wikipedia Commons under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license

How Ancient Civilizations Might Have Harvested Suns and Vanished

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What Will Happen When the Sun Dies?

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When Will the Sun Die? The Fate of Our Star and the Future of Life on Earth

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How Was the Sun Formed? The Fiery Birth of Our Star

Big Bang, conceptual image. Computer illustration representing the origin of the universe. The term Big Bang describes the initial expansion of all the matter in the universe from an infinitely compact state 13.7 billion years ago. The initial conditions are not known, but less than a second after the beginning, temperatures were trillions of degrees Celsius and the primordial universe was much smaller than an atom. It has been expanding and cooling ever since. Matter formed and coalesced into the galaxies, which are observed to be moving away from each other. Background radiation in the universe is considered a remnant of the Big Bang.

What Was Before the Beginning of the Universe?

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Sleep Psychology: Unlocking the Secrets to Better Sleep and Optimal Mental Health

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Understanding Nanomaterials: Properties, Production, and Their Role in Modern Innovation

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Nanotechnology in Cancer Treatment: Hope for a Cure at the Nanoscale

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The Rise of Nanorobots: Science Fiction or Medical Reality?

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Ethical Dilemmas in Nanotechnology: Navigating the Promises and Perils of the Nano-Revolution

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From Smart Fabrics to Self-Cleaning Surfaces: Nanotechnology’s Impact on Everyday Life

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Beyond Graphene: Exploring the World of Advanced Nanomaterials and Their Applications

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The Future of Drug Delivery: Nanoparticles and Targeted Therapies Explained

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Nanomedicine Breakthroughs: How Nanotechnology is Revolutionizing Healthcare Globally

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The Basics of Big Data: What It Is and Why It Matters

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The Science of Senses: How We See, Hear, Taste, Touch, and Smell

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How Telescopes Work: Peering into the Cosmos

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The Power of Polymers: From Plastics to DNA

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Gravity Explained: Why Apples Fall and Planets Orbit