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A ‘Last Hope’ Experiment Finds Evidence for Unknown Particles

The Theory Initiative decided not to include BMW’s value in their official estimate for a few reasons. The data-driven approach has a slightly smaller...

Cells Form Into Living ‘Xenobots’ on Their Own

The potential for cells to find their way to body plans was dramatically illustrated recently with a report that when some sea slugs become...

The US Is Finally Trying to Unlock the Power of Wave Energy

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.At first glance, waves have the makings of an ideal...

Ancient Rocks Reveal When Earth’s Plate Tectonics Began

Tusch and Münker developed a powerful new method for extracting tiny traces of tungsten from ancient rocks. Then they went looking for the rocks.First...

The Feds Want You to Destroy This Sneaky Mussel’s Hiding Spot

Daniel showed the pet store manager how to kill the freshwater interloper by dunking it in super-salty water, and they removed the moss balls...

A Decades-Long Quest Reveals New Details of Antimatter

It often goes unmentioned that protons, the positively charged matter particles at the center of atoms, are part antimatter. We learn in school that...

Border Disputes Threaten Climate Science in the Himalayas

Molden recalls how bad blood almost thwarted a key program involving the sharing of water data. In that instance, he says, an international team...

The Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Be Meaningful After All

At a sleep research symposium in January 2020, Janna Lendner presented findings that hint at a way to look at people’s brain activity for...

Why France’s New Tech ‘Repairability Index’ Is a Big Deal

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Our electronic devices take a serious environmental toll, and one...

Don’t Tell Einstein, but Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’

Identical twins have nothing on black holes. Twins may grow from the same genetic blueprints, but they can differ in a thousand ways—from temperament...

Scientists Can Literally Become Allergic to Their Research

This story originally appeared on Undark and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Bryan Fry's heart was pounding as he stepped back from...

What Dust From Space Tells Us About Ourselves

Every year, roughly 10 particles of space dust land on each square meter of Earth’s surface. “That means that they are everywhere. They are...

How Steel Might Finally Kick Its Coal Habit

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as...

How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide

What lies beyond all we can see? The question may seem unanswerable. Nevertheless, some cosmologists have a response: Our universe is a swelling bubble....

A Quarter of Known Bee Species Haven’t Been Seen Since 1990

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The number of wild bee species recorded by an...

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