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Two dinosaur eggs, each about five inches (13 centimeters) across and almost perfectly round, have surprised scientists in eastern China. Instead of fragile shells packed with embryonic bone, the fossil eggs were hollow cavities stuffed with…

Every so often, astronomers will witness an incredible and mysterious phenomenon – startlingly bright, electric blue flashes in the night sky that blaze for days and then fade away, leaving behind a whisper of X-rays and radio waves. 

With…

At 15 years old, Belgian researcher Laurent Simons earned a PhD in quantum physics from the University of Antwerp. He says the degree is a means to a larger goal: building longer, healthier lives by enhancing human biology.

Simons research…

About 9,000 years ago, part of Antarctica’s eastern ice sheet collapsed astonishingly fast, driven by warmer ocean water. The study focuses on the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, a vast body of land ice in East Antarctica.

Altogether, Antarctica’s…

A tiny robot so small it can barely be seen can still “sense, think, and act” autonomously, according to the engineers who built it.

To the team’s best knowledge, this joint invention is the world’s smallest programmable robot that can…

The Human Genome Project was completed a little over twenty years ago. Now, scientists involved in the 4D Nucleome Project have created a detailed map that not only showcases the human genome in 3D, but reveals how different components of the…

The biggest science story this year was the political upheaval in the United States. Funding cuts, academic lay-offs and vaccine-sceptic policies have widely been seen as an attack on science, according to critics of President Donald Trump’s…

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of eukaryotes, the domain of life defined by cells with a membrane-bound nucleus, which includes all animals, plants, fungi, and insects. If they unravel this, perhaps they could understand how…