Tiny crystals capture millions of years of mountain range history – a geologist excavates the Himalayas with a microscope
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Aboriginal people made pottery and sailed to distant offshore islands thousands of years before Europeans arrived
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Fossilized dinosaur eggshells can preserve amino acids, the building blocks of proteins, over millions of years
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How older immigrants are navigating the infodemic
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We saw one of the most powerful magnets in the Universe come to life – and our theories can’t quite explain it
After a decade of silence, one of the most powerful magnets in the universe suddenly…
Eclipses aren’t just visual spectacles, they are at the heart of scientific efforts to understand distant planets
The total solar eclipse across North America on April 8 2024 is a stunning and…
US media coverage of new science less likely to mention researchers with African and East Asian names
When one Chinese national recently petitioned the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to become a…
Undersea cables are the unseen backbone of the global internet
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Australians are open to self-driving vehicles, but want humans to retain ultimate control
A mob set fire to a Waymo self-driving taxi in San Francisco last month as…
why your high-school textbook was wrong about the shape of Earth’s orbit
If you’ve ever been taught about how Earth orbits around the Sun, you might well…