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It’s a breakthrough that feels almost science fiction: decoding what an animal sees by reading its brain signals and turning them back into moving images. Vision begins when light hits the retina, but ...

Artist’s concept depicting Elias 2-24 b, the youngest exoplanet detected to date, still growing within the disk of gas and ...

Venus and Earth are often called twins because they’re similar in size, mass, and composition. Yet one striking difference ...

Neurons are extraordinary cells, and part of what makes them so complex is the extra-long genes they rely on, stretches of ...

When the Apollo astronauts were the first to set foot on the Moon, they demonstrated that humanity had the capability of ...

The majority of massive stars are not solitary. Indeed, at least nine out of ten are born with companions and thus form ...

Glioblastoma is one of the toughest brain cancers to treat, but researchers at MIT’s Media Lab have unveiled a striking new ...

Just as lotus leaves inspire water-repellent coatings and spider silk inspires ultra-strong fibers, eggshells may one day ...

DNA of the ancient virus was extracted from millennium old sheepskin Bible parchment, now in the collections of the ...

Unlike sunlight or lightning, which affect the whole planet, auroral activity is confined to specific areas. As a result, ...

For nearly sixty years, Einstein’s general relativity has offered a starkly simple picture of black holes: they are defined ...