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A discarded SpaceX Falcon 9 stage crashed into the Moon on Aug. 5, leaving behind a newly formed crater about 60 feet wide.

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Spain’s total solar eclipse delivered an unexpected sight: a corona glowing gold instead of its usual pearly white. Because ...

Specialized brain scans reveal that schizophrenia is linked to widespread loss of the synapses that connect brain cells, with ...

More than 1,000 genetic switches behave differently in male and female immune cells, helping explain why women are much more ...

Extreme experiments have revealed how diamond behaves at crushing pressures beyond those inside Neptune and Uranus, resolving a decades-old conflict between theory and observation. The results could ...

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The brain has a remarkably flexible system for handling uncertainty and changing situations. Researchers found that the ...

MIT physicists found that two electronic phases inside the same quantum material emerge through surprisingly different ...

Coffee drinkers may be getting more than an energy boost. A Finnish study found that people who drank more coffee tended to ...