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There’s nothing more disorienting than falling asleep in transit only to wake up and find you’ve somehow drifted billions of miles beyond the orbit of Pluto.Fortunately for NASA’s New Horizon…
Scientists have discovered how mice survive at extreme altitudes on the tips of icy dormant volcanoes in the Andes.The area where the mice call home extends more than 1 mile…
Inca boys and girls chosen for human sacrifice trekked through Inca communities for thousands of miles on sacred pilgrimages before their ritual deaths, often near high peaks in the Andes…
Astronauts have grown a common crystal in space — but this extraterrestrial version is exhibiting a very uncommon behavior. Under a microscope, the crystal looks more like a tiny futuristic…
Fifty years after Southern California’s Salton Sea formed due to an engineering mishap in 1905, the giant salt lake became a booming vacation destination. Nicknamed the “miracle in the desert,”…
The patient: A 6-year-old boy in the NetherlandsThe symptoms: The child was receiving a blood transfusion as a treatment for lymphoblastic leukemia, a type of blood cancer that originates in…
Science word of the day: AbiogenesisPronunciation: Ay-bye-oh-JEN’-ih-sisWhat it means: Abiogenesis is the emergence of life from nonliving matter through chemical processes. Scientists still don’t know exactly how abiogenesis happened on…
Runoff from Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet could severely disrupt currents in the Atlantic Ocean that regulate the global climate, researchers say. But the fresh water won’t trigger the complete…
The Trump administration could sanction Chinese artificial intelligence firms if it uncovers evidence that their open-source AI models were built by ripping off US labs, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned…
One of the central assumptions of modern neuroscience research is that the brain’s shape and structure affect behavior. Scientists have linked a thicker cortex (the brain’s outer layer) to higher…