Astronomers are scratching their heads over a recently discovered planet. The planet, dubbed TOI-6894b, orbits a star 238 light-years from Earth. The planet is huge; the star is tiny, a red dwarf only 20 percent the mass of our own sun. And…
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Space Elevators Could Totally Work—If Earth Days Were Much Shorter
Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What would happen? Well, for starters we’d have to make new clocks that only have hours 1 to 6 for am and pm. If you had tickets to an 8 o’clock concert,…
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The Next Acetaminophen Tablet You Take Could Be Made From PET
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen using the natural properties of the common bacterium Escherichia coli (E. coli). This breakthrough represents a milestone with the…
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Should I freeze my sperm? Men consider their ‘sixth vital sign.’
It’s fertility on ice. Egg-freezing boomed in the last decade, with a 400…
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Ten Stunning Nature Photos From the BigPicture 2025
From the beautiful to the bizarre, this annual photographic showcase shines a light on some of our planet’s most breathtaking species and places
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Scientists Are Tracking Worrying Declines in Insects—and the Birds That Feast on Them. Here's What's Being Done to Save Them Both
In Vermont, researchers have investigated the types of creepy, crawly bugs that their avian predators consume and may have found the answers to keeping them both alive
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Herpes virus hijacks human DNA within just one hour of infection, scientists find
The cold sore-causing Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV-1) hijacks human cells and reconfigures its
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The unique human body part that evolution cannot explain
The human body is a machine whose many parts – from the microscopic details of our cells to…
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Scientists think they have found the oldest rocks on earth
A new study has pinpointed what could be the oldest rocks on Earth, found within a remote…
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