The chances of intelligent life emerging in our universe—and in any hypothetical ones beyond it—can be estimated by a new ...

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Scientists at EMBL Grenoble and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have developed a new method for using in ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense maelstrom of the early universe has puzzled physicists for decades.

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Once every spring, a few days after the full moon, corals of the great barrier reef release eggs and sperm simultaneously—a ...

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a novel nanotechnology-based solution for the ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a patch for easier and more effective treatment of psoriasis. The ...

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I'm a historian of the medieval papacy and editor of the forthcoming three volumes of the Cambridge History of the Papacy. So ...