The world's top court will next week start unprecedented hearings aimed at finding a "legal blueprint" for how countries ...

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Using ESA's XMM-Newton satellite and NASA's Chandra spacecraft, German astronomers have observed a supersoft X-ray source ...

Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays—they produce too many muons at the Earth's surface. Cascades of muons are ...

A team of bioarchaeologists from the Austrian Archaeological Institute at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Université de ...

More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called ...

Vorticity, a measure of the local rotation or swirling motion in a fluid, has long been studied by physicists and ...

It's no secret: when we savor a delicious piece of fish or a platter of seafood, we're not just consuming valuable omega-3s ...

Coral adaptation to ocean warming and marine heat waves will likely be overwhelmed without rapid reductions of global ...

What will humans be like generations from now in a world transformed by artificial intelligence (AI)? Plenty of thinkers have ...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, ...