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The liminal space between sleeping and waking could be where the human brain conjures the uncanny. It's there, in a state ...

In a handful of dust grains that traveled to Earth from the Kuiper Belt, traces remain of long-lost water bearing the ...

We're used to thinking of gravity in the context of large masses – the whirl of planets, the inexorable pull of a black hole.

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We hate to be the ones to break it to you, but your cat may have some complaints about the service you're delivering.

There are many things about modern life we take for granted – perhaps none more so than the vast electrical grids that power ...

A catastrophic landslide in Greenland led to a deadly tsunami, and based on the shape of two other large unstable slopes in the area, scientists are concerned it could happen again.

Researchers in Ireland analyzed data from the Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing (TILDA), assessing the health of ...

A team at the University of New South Wales in Sydney wanted to know how early those effects might show up in an ordinary ...

"By integrating observations from land to the deep sea, this study provides one of the most comprehensive ecosystem ...