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Sharks have all the senses humans have – along with additional senses that enable them to detect electrical signals and vibrations in the water.

Small pores on a shark’s snout, known as ‘ampullae of Lorenzini’, can detect the tiny…

Scientists have squeezed water between two diamonds to create an entirely new form of ice that’s solid at room temperature.

The ice, named ice XXI, forms when water is subjected to extreme pressure to become metastable — a precarious state that…

Astronomers have discovered a colossal bridge of near-invisible gas — spanning around twice the width of the entire Milky Way — connecting a pair of distant dwarf galaxies. The adjoined entities also share a record-breaking galactic tail,…

For all the discoveries we’re making of faraway galaxies, we’re still struggling to fully understand our own galaxy, the Milky Way. For example, researchers have known for decades of an odd concentration of gamma rays near the…

SpaceX has broken its own record for number of rocket launches in a year, and is showing no signs of slowing down.

A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base…

Google Explores Quantum Chaos on Its Most Powerful Quantum Computer Chip

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Google scientists have created a new algorithm that can solve problems on a quantum processor 13,000 times faster than the world’s fastest supercomputers. They say it brings us one step closer to using quantum computers in drug discovery,…

The science of poop has yielded some fascinating results, but the latest installment in this beat may be the most astounding yet. After decades of noticing but generally not understanding why reptiles “pee” crystals, researchers…