For decades, ever since biologists recognized the potential environmental harms from climate change, they have worried that ...

New experimental results have cast doubt on earlier proposals suggesting that spherical, cell-like membranes could form in ...

A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created around 400 million years ago, when two massive moons smashed into each other. This hypothesis could also help to solve several other ...

Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and ...

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Nearly a century after astronomers first proposed dark matter to explain the strange motions of galaxies, scientists may finally be catching a glimpse of it. A University of Tokyo researcher analyzing ...

Is reality an illusion a digital projection built on data and design? Simulation theory suggests that everything we know, from the laws of physics to our own thoughts, may be nothing more than code ...

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Hurricane Erin weakened into a Category 2 storm over Monday evening, the latest shift in what has been a remarkably fast-changing storm. The hurricane’s behavior in recent days makes it one of the ...

It’s probe-ably nothing. The newly discovered Manhattan-sized interstellar object zooming through our solar system has been identified as a comet — but two Harvard scientists argue there is reason to ...