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The female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone may help relieve pain, an animal study finds.The new research, conducted in lab mice, found that the two hormones work together to direct…
Rubbery blue sea creatures are washing up on California beaches by the thousands.The translucent blobs, known as by-the-wind sailors (Velella velella), began piling up Sunday (March 30) along several beaches…
The split between South America and Africa 135 million years ago was a fiery affair, new research finds.The continental breakup spewed over 3.8 million cubic miles (16 million cubic kilometers)…
Two NASA rockets launched into auroras over Alaska last week to study the impact that these geomagnetic light shows have on Earth’s upper atmosphere, and the results were gorgeous.The experiment,…
The remains of about 150 Roman soldiers have been discovered beneath a soccer field in the Austrian capital of Vienna, indicating a fierce battle against Germanic warriors happened there in…
NASA has added SpaceX’s giant Starship rocket to a major commercial contract, putting the world’s most powerful launch vehicle in contention for future missions — even though the shiny spacecraft…
Two 7,000-year-old mummies belong to a previously unknown human lineage that remained isolated in North Africa for thousands of years, a new study finds.The mummies are the remains of women…
Quantum computers are coming. And when they arrive, they are going to upend the way we protect sensitive data.Unlike classical computers, quantum computers harness quantum mechanical effects — like superposition…
In the United States, an estimated 645,000 men ages 20 to 50 have azoospermia, a condition in which no sperm are present in their ejaculate. Now, scientists are testing a…
A major disruption to the Arctic polar vortex has bumped the ring of wind that circles the North Pole off its perch and towards Europe, a new animation shows.The migration…