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PhD candidate may have solved one of Earth’s most perplexing geological mysteries – what caused the Great Unconformity?

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A new toothbrush generates electricity through bristle movement to wage war on plaque-producing pathogens. The invention ...

Some black holes may be older than the stars themselves. One could even be hiding inside our sun. And their existence could ...

Ancient gas reserves, trapped for millions of years beneath the Arctic permafrost, are finding a way to the surface. With an ...

More American adults aged 65 and older are using cannabis than ever before. The latest data, from 2023, show that monthly use amongst this demographic rose to 7 percent, from 4.8 percent in 2021. Lega ...

The Atlantic Meridional Ocean Circulation, or AMOC for short, is the Atlantic's heat conveyor belt. And experts have been ...

It’s a dizzyingly busy time for scientists searching for life on distant planets. To date, astronomers have cataloged more ...

Alcoholic drinks are nearly ubiquitous across ancient human cultures, with many independently developing them at some point ...

A new evolutionary theory suggests changes in body size, rather than competition for food and habitat, may drive the earliest physical differences between species.