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A hexagon darkens the clouds over Saturn’s north pole. Now, astronomers have found a similarly shaped atmospheric wave at the ...

The universe’s first rocky planets may have gotten their start astonishingly early — perhaps only 100 million years after the ...

The biggest fibromyalgia genetics study yet zeroed in on 26 genetic risk factors for the pain disorder, including one in the ...

Migraine prevention drugs are more targeted than ever before, and new guidelines may help doctors predict which will work for ...

Many people struggle to sleep enough at night. Surprisingly, science cannot say if adding in a nap to sleep in two blocks is ...

California blackworms can squeeze through narrow channels faster than they can wriggle across wide ones, a finding that may ...

Apollo astronauts reported seeing flashes of light where there were none. Fifty years later, the flashes still mess with ...

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Researchers have discovered that gold can take the shape of nanoscale, hollow cages similar to carbon buckyballs. Lai-Sheng ...