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Near the center of the Milky Way, a star is racing around Sagittarius A* at speeds reaching 25 000 km/s. Named S301, it is ...

Lead in ancient ink could help researchers read the Herculaneum papyri, Roman scrolls buried when Mount Vesuvius erupted in ...

Clouds influence the climate by controlling how much sunlight reaches Earth and by absorbing and emitting heat. Over the ...

Scientists examining Scotty, the largest T. rex skeleton ever discovered, found an extraordinary network of mineralized blood ...

Researchers can now rewrite glass chemistry while it is still molten, unlocking properties that extreme heat once made ...

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A compound known as TOFA appears to fight metabolic disease by pushing cells to use more energy rather than suppressing ...

Australia’s Indigenous population has a history stretching back tens of thousands of years, shaped by deep cultural traditions, diverse communities, and close connections to the land. Credit: ...

Credit: NASA Large Binocular Telescope data cut helium measurement uncertainty threefold. Helium, a light chemical element, carries clues to what the universe was like during its first five minutes.