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An Ancient Art Form Topples Assumptions about Mathematics

The sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of mathematics know...

Drones and AI Could Locate Land Mines in Ukraine

An AI model could speed up laborious and dangerous demining efforts

Are Children's Books Improving Representation?

Racial and gender disparities persist in award-winning kids’ literature despite ...

Newfound Hybrid Brain Cells Send Signals like Neurons Do

Some astrocytes, thought to play only a supportive role in the brain, can commun...

Machine Learning Creates a Massive Map of Smelly Molecules

Scientists can finally predict a chemical’s odor without having a human sniff it

Air-Conditioning Discovery Eliminates Harmful Gases

Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just inven...

The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with ...

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles sil...

How to Buy Your First Telescope

This beginner’s guide to telescope basics will help make holiday shopping a litt...

Earth's Earliest Rocks Forged by Colliding Tectonic Plates

Our planet’s crust has been shifting and sliding for four billion years, a new s...

Southern Hemisphere Braces for Record-Breaking Heat

Like the Northern Hemisphere before it, the Southern Hemisphere is set to be env...

Astronomy Is Facing an End Of The Era of Monster Telesc...

Money, engineering, and sheer geometry may mark an end of the line for building ...

Air Pollution Is Really Dangerous, Even More New Eviden...

Dirty air has been linked to poor health outcomes, ranging from suicidality to l...

Gluten's Complex Chemistry Contributes to Delicious Bak...

Gluten’s unique chemistry gives foods like bread and rolls their airy, stretchy ...

U.S. Targets Methane Emissions in New Batch of Rules

The Biden administration is poised to release rules and guidance to curb emissio...

The Science to Be Grateful for This Year

A year of exciting ideas and research has given us much to be grateful for

Mysterious 'Tasmanian Devil' Space Explosion Baffles As...

Scientists still can’t explain what is causing unusually bright explosions in sp...

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