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Saturn has a big, weird decagon around its south pole
A decagon – a geometric polygon with 10 sides and 10 angles – has been found on Saturn, and nobody is quite sure how it got there
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New nanostructure makes non-linear light conversion 72,000 times more efficient
Researchers from Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Harvard and the University of Texas at Austin (UT Austin) have developed an innova
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Principal support helps teachers, but isn't enough to stop turnover from classroom violence
An ongoing national teacher shortage has created a sense of urgency to better understand why educators choose to stay in their positions—and
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Whether you're an introvert or extravert may decide how you should use AI
More than a century ago, the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung made introversion and extraversion central to his theory of psychological types.
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Sorry, this neutrino laser won't work, physicists say
Neutrinos are pervasive yet intangible particles that permeate the universe, streaming through whole planets, stars and our bodies by the tr
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Weak sea-surface temperature gradients may fuel stronger tropical cyclones
The fact that the ocean gets colder as you go deeper is fairly intuitive, but a similar gradient exists along the surface of the ocean, even
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Dolphin-feeding tourism contributes to predicted dolphin decline
A study published in the journal Oikos, titled "Forecasting the impact of food-provisioning and other stressors on a marine top-predator pop
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When biology inspires mathematics: Hidden symmetries explain why widely used evolutionary methods can give false answers
Why do some groups of organisms contain thousands of species while others have only a handful? Evolutionary biologists have spent decades tr
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This week’s new questions
Why hasn’t evolution reintroduced gills in the land-based mammals that returned to the sea? And what is the fastest way to empty a full jug
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What is the optimal way to ice a cocktail? Part 2
Readers continue to share their two cents on how best to keep your cocktail cool
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Why the extremes of climate breakdown will continue to take us by surprise
The relentless heatwaves that have hit the northern hemisphere this summer have made the climate threat real for many – but preparation and
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If the sun suddenly disappeared, how long would life on Earth last?
Readers offer different perspectives on the fate of life on Earth should the sun vanish – and there may be hope for some
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Ambitious sci-fi novel imagines a universe where time flows backwards
People are born old in their graves and get more robust over life, only to shrink into babies who are pushed into their mother’s womb. The a
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The legendary snow leopard comes up against harsh realities in remarkable book
In Kulbhushansingh Suryawanshi's The Ghost of the Mountains, the near-spiritual myth of the elusive snow leopard becomes a way of understand
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Designer floating homes may be the future as sea levels rise
Are these floating houses in Amsterdam’s IJburg district the shape of things to come? Check out Floating Futures, a new series by photojourn
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Twisteddoodles on seasonal bird fashion
This week's cartoon from Twisteddoodles
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Adam Kucharski would like to point out he did not win big at a casino
Feedback goes down an AI rabbit hole after discovering that the internet is making up stories about epidemiologist and mathematician Adam Ku
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Humans can see water, so can fish see air?
One reader delves into whether or not fish can see air – and question if humans can strictly see water
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Wind-wave tunnel helps engineers dive deeper into ocean research
Inside a lab at the University of Texas at Dallas, researchers have re-created a small-scale ocean environment where they can make waves bui
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Iguanodon shinbone growth may be first evidence of an infected skin ulcer in a dinosaur
Fossilized bones can reveal a wealth of details about animals, including their size, appearance, what they ate and any injuries they may hav
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How can we improve school attendance?
Poor school attendance can negatively affect young people's behavior and future health. It is a growing public health concern because rates
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Young sunlike system reveals comets may carry water toward forming planets
Astronomers at Lund University in Sweden have found evidence of exocomets—comets in other solar systems—orbiting a young star similar to our
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More trees are needed to cool down European cities in heat waves—but they must be planted near homes
Heat waves claimed the lives of tens of thousands of people in Europe's capital cities this summer as they experienced record temperatures.
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How cells teach themselves to move together
Scientists have long wondered how cells organized into sheets begin to move together to form organs, especially when the sheets form closed,
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