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Spiders taught scientists how to make unsinkable metal

By Deni Ellis…

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has historically been the pinnacle of U.S. public health. The agency has been a leading voice for evidence-backed health guidance and a sentinel for deadly disease outbreaks for decades. But over the…

A straightforward blood test could one day reveal the earliest signs of Parkinson’s disease years before more noticeable symptoms appear, according to a new study of DNA repair and cell stress.

The processes through which cells repair their…

Why is one single whale singing at the wrong frequency? That’s a question experts have been discussing since 1989 when US Navy hydrophones detected a strange whale call.

Even in the 1980s, hearing whale song on underwater recordings wasn’t…

“You have to be a pleasant person to work with, that’s number one,” Purvis says. “You have to deal with pressure, stress and uncertainty and still be able to perform in your job – you can train for every scenario but something’s going to happen…

Physicists have put thousands of atoms into a “Schrödinger’s cat” state — smashing the record for the most macroscopic object to be observed in a quantum state.

In a new study, researchers observed nanoparticles of 7,000 sodium atoms acting…

Since the dawn of the quantum era, perhaps no question has loomed larger in the minds of theoretical physicists than just what, exactly, the nature of reality is. Are quantum objects real, with well-defined positions and momenta,…