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A U.S. company is designing a large battery that it says could help decarbonize the nation’s power sector more cheaply...

Some scientists and ethicists think He deserves a chance to prove that he’s capable of producing scientifically valid and ethically...

Regular consumption of a common synthetic food dye widely used in sweets, soft drinks, and cereals could be impacting our...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Editor’s Note (12/20/22): This...

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The common bottlenose dolphin is one of the most well-studied marine mammals in the world. Yet in the last few...

There’s a soap dish for sale at a beauty products shop in São Paulo, Brazil. An off-white disc with a...

Berlin, Nevada, is a treasure chest for paleontologists. Just down the road from now-abandoned gold and silver mines, a rockbound...

A species of wasp that lives in Japan seems to have developed a rather unconventional method for warding off attacks.Researchers...

Lightning-resistant trees in Panama, an Australian avian arms race, hydrogen-powered trains in Germany, and much more in this month’s Quick...