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'Olfactory Training' during Sleep Could Help Your Memory

Participants who smelled odors while they slept performed better on word-recall ...

Inside the $1.5-Trillion Nuclear Weapons Program You've...

A road trip through the communities shouldering the U.S.’s nuclear missile revival

Is the Lottery Ever a Good Bet?

The surprisingly subtle math behind the Powerball and Mega Millions

Just One U.S. Reservation Hosts Nuclear Weapons. This I...

15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berth...

This Fall Is Full of Acorns--Thanks to a 'Mast' Year

Trees can outsmart animals such as squirrels and birds by synchronizing their se...

Leonid and Geminid Meteor Showers Bring Bonanza before ...

Two unusual annual meteor showers come at the end of the year, and each can spar...

U.K. Becomes First Country to Approve a CRISPR Disease ...

A newly approved CRISPR therapy could transform the treatment of sickle cell dis...

This Biophysicist 'Sun Queen' Harnessed Solar Power

Hungarian-American biophysicist and inventor Mária Telkes illuminated the field ...

What the U.S.-China Agreement Means for Greenhouse Gas ...

The two nations announced limited steps to address climate change. But even a mo...

Climate Change is Disrupting Animals' Brains. Here's How

Shifting temperatures disrupt the cues animals rely on to navigate their environ...

Seals Show Scientists an Unknown Antarctic Canyon

Charting the seafloor with deep-diving animals can help scientists predict glaci...

Mapping the 'Unknome' May Reveal Critical Genes Scienti...

Geneticists don’t know what most human genes do. A new research tool may help

Behind the Scenes at a U.S. Factory Building New Nuclea...

The U.S. is ramping up construction of new “plutonium pits” for nuclear weapons

Robotics 'Revives' a Long-Extinct Starfish Ancestor

Engineers and paleontologists teamed up to reconstruct an ancestor of starfish f...

Unions Bring a Surprising Side Effect--Higher Vaccinati...

Unions are good medicine, spurring vaccinations in their wider communities while...

Simple Formula Makes Prime Numbers Easy, but a Million-...

A generator equation can spit out many prime numbers, but it leaves important ma...

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