For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and other biological networks look the way they do. The prevailing theory held that nature simply builds these systems as…
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Scientists use string theory to crack the code of natural networks
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Researchers Just Sampled 1.4-Billion-Year-Old Air—and It’s Not What They Expected
Researchers have retrieved samples of 1.4 billion-year-old air from ancient crystals and found something surprising about a supposedly “boring” time period.
The team studied the gases and fluids locked in halite crystals…
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Inside the massive radio search of our newest interstellar guest
It feels like every week now we’re writing a new article about how 3I/ATLAS is not an alien technology. But it’s worth reiterating, and perhaps taking a look at the methodology we used to prove that statement. A new paper, available in pre-print…
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Can recycling urine help combat the climate crisis?
In the last century, synthetic fertilizers have changed the face of the planet. The current world population might be halved if not for this useful development.
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Tackling conspiracy theories requires tactics as varied as the theories themselves
An international project investigating the form, content and consequences of online conspiracy theories has found that in German-speaking countries, such theories often originate locally and have come to form a complex ecosystem of alternative…
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Huge ice dome in Greenland vanished 7,000 years ago — melting at temperatures we’re racing toward today
Part of the Greenland Ice Sheet completely melted about 7,000 years ago at temperatures close to those predicted for the end of this century, and it could have big implications for future sea-level rises, according to a new study.
The Prudhoe…
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Long day at work? Go ahead and watch some TV, research suggests
Brain dead after a hard day of work? It turns out it’s totally fine to park yourself in front of the TV. It might even make recovery—an essential part of burnout prevention—easier.
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Going further with fusion, together
At 4 a.m., while most of New Jersey slept, a Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) physicist sat at his computer connected to a control room 3,500 miles away in Oxford, England. Years of experience running fusion experiments in the U.S….
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Surface optimization governs the local design of physical networks
Shapson-Coe, A. et al. A petavoxel fragment of human cerebral cortex reconstructed at nanoscale resolution. Science 384, eadk4858 (2024).
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Antarctica Doomsday Glacier Rattled by Hundreds of Iceberg Earthquakes
January 7, 2026
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Hundreds of Iceberg Earthquakes Rattle Antarctica’s Doomsday Glacier
Capsizing icebergs are violently clashing with the crumbling end of the Doomsday Glacier
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