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Over the past 8,000 years, Utah's Great Salt Lake has been sensitive to changes in climate and water inflow. Now, new ...

Does keeping authors' identities secret during peer review make the process more fair? A new large-scale field study, led by ...

Researchers at Rice University and collaborating institutions have discovered direct evidence of active flat electronic bands ...

A team of scientists from Korea and Japan has discovered a new type of crystal that can "breathe"—releasing and absorbing ...

Elon Musk's SpaceX announced Friday that its Starship megarocket is scheduled to blast off on a new test flight next weekend ...

Electricity flows through wires to deliver power, but it loses energy as it moves, delivering less than it started with. But ...

Researchers at the College of Design and Engineering (CDE) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have developed a ...

In southwestern Kenya more than 2.6 million years ago, ancient humans wielded an array of stone tools—known collectively as ...

Scientists have turned a longstanding challenge in electronics—material defects—into a quantum-enhanced solution, paving the ...