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Researchers from Nagoya University in Japan and the Slovak Academy of Sciences have unveiled new insights into the interplay ...

Brazilian students returned to class this week with a new task: staying away from their smartphones as a new law restricting ...

The phase and the group velocity of light propagating in conventional optical media cannot exceed the speed of light in ...

Countries must aim as high as possible when setting new goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Andre Correa do Lago, the ...

Geneticist Zhang Huarong walks through the forest near his Hong Kong research lab, gesturing towards a rotting incense tree ...

Indian farmer R Murali opens an app on his phone to check if his pomegranate trees need watering, fertilizer or are at risk ...

A man described feeling "the shudders" as more than 100 venomous red-bellied black snakes were removed from a pile of mulch ...

NASA launched its PACE climate satellite with the Dutch aerosol instrument SPEXone onboard. A full year of observations now ...

Scientists at Goethe University Frankfurt have identified a new way to probe the interior of neutron stars using ...

Weeks after Opposition Leader Peter Dutton announced his support for mandatory minimum jail terms for antisemitic offenses, ...

Vanilla is vital to the livelihoods of farmers in Madagascar, where the globally popular dessert ingredient is the country's ...