More than a million years ago, on a hot savanna teeming with wildlife near the shore of what would someday become Lake ...

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Within a cell, DNA carries the genetic code for building proteins. To build proteins, the cell makes a copy of DNA, called ...

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Scientists have a problem with cosmic rays—they produce too many muons at the Earth's surface. Cascades of muons are ...

Every year, billions of vehicles worldwide shed an estimated 6 million tons of tire fragments. These tiny flakes of plastic, ...

This week marks the centenary of the French physicist Louis de Broglie's doctoral thesis, which later earned him a Nobel ...

A bitterly-fought climate finance deal reached at COP29 risks weakening emissions-cutting plans from developing countries, ...

Earth's continents are slowly moving across the planet's surface due to plate tectonics, culminating in regions of crustal ...