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New study: There are lots of icy super-Earths
“Microlensing” lets us find planets at much greater distances from their star. What does the “typical” exosolar system look like?…
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Mars’ polar ice cap is slowly pushing its north pole inward
Skip to content That, plus data from the InSight lander, gives us a new view into Mars’ interior. The north…
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22 states sue to block new NIH funding policy—court puts it on hold
Regardless of what else they might be doing, the indirect costs pay for various critical campus services, including at research…
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Simple voltage pulse can restore capacity to Li-Si batteries
The new work, then, is based on a hypothetical: What if we just threw silicon particles in, let them fragment,…
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When did humans start social knowledge accumulation?
A key aspect of humans’ evolutionary success is the fact that we don’t have to learn how to do things…
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Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went
Well, that went badly — Scientists find a “mitotic stopwatch” that lets individual cells remember something. John Timmer – Mar…
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