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Water splitting—breaking water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen—is a promising pathway to sustainable energy. However, this ...

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Independent researchers in Arizona have unearthed a bronze cannon linked to the Vázquez de Coronado expedition, making it the ...

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A team led by the University of Oxford has solved a mystery that has intrigued scientists for centuries: how does the ...

When NASA's Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 1986, it captured grainy photographs of large ice-covered moons. Now nearly 40 years ...

Five telescopes of the H.E.S.S.-collaboration in Namibia are used to study cosmic radiation, especially gamma radiation. With ...

The small industrious wood ant can do more than just build high nests in spruce forests. A newly published article in the ...

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are everywhere in modern life, from smartphones to home lighting. But today's LEDs have a major ...

The secret to cellular youth may depend on keeping the nucleolus—a condensed structure inside the nucleus of a cell—small, ...