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Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have reached a record high in 2024, according to new research by the Global Carbon ...

Until recently, a gap existed in the world map of amber discoveries: the Antarctic continent. But that gap has finally been ...

Scientists at EMBL Grenoble and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have developed a new method for using in ...

Apple trees, like many perennial plants, endure a prolonged juvenile stage before reaching maturity, during which they ...

The United States has almost 2 million people behind bars in prisons, jails and detention centers—the largest such population ...

An elusive particle that first formed in the hot, dense maelstrom of the early universe has puzzled physicists for decades.

Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have developed a novel nanotechnology-based solution for the ...

Researchers at the University of Copenhagen have developed a patch for easier and more effective treatment of psoriasis. The ...

All animals, large or small, have to move at an incredible precision to interact with the world. Understanding how the brain ...

A new computational method can identify how cause-and-effect relationships ebb and flow over time in dynamic real-life ...

When active filaments are exposed to localized illumination, they accumulate into stable structures along the boundaries of ...