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Measuring no more than 2 feet long from nose to tail, a newly-described crocodilian nicknamed “Elton” likely lived its entire life on land where it lounged…

If you twist something — say, spin a top or rotate a robot’s arm — and…

The first-ever detection of heavy water in a planet-forming disk around a young star offers evidence that the water predates the star itself — and it appears this substance even originated in the cold, dark molecular cloud that gave birth to…

Scientists have created a new phase of ice that can form at room temperature.

As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Nature Materials, the new phase, dubbed XXI, requires extreme levels of pressure to form. As its name…

During winter, you’ll often see municipal trucks spray salt on roads and sidewalks to clear them of snow. Although no heat is added, the dissolution of the salt effectively lowers the freezing…

After millions of years of peace, an idle volcano is showing its first signs of volcanic unrest. The summit of Taftan has become swollen and bloated, indicating that the pressure of magma and hot gas is increasing within its bowels. 

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Lasers are not only for cutting metal or scanning groceries. They can also carry usable electricity across open air without a single wire.

A U.S. team sent electrical power as laser light across about 5.3 miles and turned it back into electricity…

Science and maintenance work continued this week aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but updates regarding those activities are still all but halted by the U.S. government shutdown. Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui’s social media posts…