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June 11, 2026
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Scientists developed an ingenious type of ...

Have you ever wondered if there's a way to make plastic disappear after it's no longer needed? Researchers at the University of California San Diego might have found an answer.

Scientists developed an ingenious type of 'living bioplastic' that breaks itself down
June 4, 2026
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This Amazing Breakthrough in Plastic Recycling ...

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a very smart process that has to potential to close the loop on plastic waste.

June 2, 2026
Space & Exploration
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Is There Life Out There? Number of Exoplanets ...

New research suggests that the number of Earth-like exoplanets hosting liquid water may be vastly underestimated, therefore greatly enhancing the possibility of discovering life.

Is There Life Out There? Number of Exoplanets With Liquid Water Vastly Underestimated
June 2, 2026
Space & Exploration
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A Planet With Strange Clouds Is Helping ...

A distant giant planet has been hiding clues in its clouds. Now, the James Webb Space Telescope has revealed that its atmosphere changes in a surprising way from morning to evening.

June 2, 2026
Health Mind & Brain
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How does your body lose weight? An obesity ...

For decades, weight loss has often been reduced to a simple formula: eat less and move more. But as many people know from experience, body weight is far more complex than basic calorie counting.

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February 11, 2022
Health Mind & Brain

Why does it become more difficult to access memories quickly as we get older?

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February 11, 2022
Health Mind & Brain

A group of researchers set out to understand why we tend to slow down a bit when it comes to memory retrieval as we get older,

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February 9, 2022
Technology & Gaming

European fusion experiment generates a record-breaking amount of sustained energy

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February 9, 2022
Technology & Gaming

Researchers at the Joint European Torus (JET) shattered a 24-year old record by achieving the highest-ever energy output of 59 megajoules from nuclear fusion, generated over a sustained period of time

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February 8, 2022
Environment & Biology

Bizzare record: WMO verified a 'megaflash' that covered a horizontal distance of 477 miles

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February 8, 2022
Environment & Biology
Bizzare record: WMO verified a 'megaflash' that covered a horizontal distance of 477 miles

The World Meteorological Organization verified two bizarre, record-breaking 'megaflashes'

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February 5, 2022
Environment & Biology

Study shows that over 9000 tree species are yet to be discovered

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February 5, 2022
Environment & Biology
Study shows that over 9000 tree species are yet to be discovered

Researchers concluded that there are still thousands of rare, undiscovered tree species mostly located in remote areas of our planet.

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February 1, 2022
Environment & Biology

The force released from deep-sea volcanoes is so enormous that it could power an entire continent

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February 1, 2022
Environment & Biology

For a long time, it was presumed that volcanic eruptions that take place on the bottom oceans were boring compared to those that happen on dry land. Nothing could be further from the truth.

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January 30, 2022
Technology & Gaming

Scientists got yet another step closer to self-sustaining nuclear fusion!

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January 30, 2022
Technology & Gaming

Scientists took a critical step towards viable, self-sustaining nuclear fusion by creating so-called 'burning plasma.'

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January 23, 2022
Environment & Biology

Can goldfish navigate on land?

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January 23, 2022
Environment & Biology
Can goldfish navigate on land?

Scientists wanted to find out whether goldfish are capable of navigating outside their natural habitat.

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January 19, 2022
Environment & Biology

Will the Tonga volcanic eruption affect global climate?

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January 19, 2022
Environment & Biology

Large volcanoes have had an impact on the global climate in the past. Will the Tonga volcanic eruption have a similar long-term effect?

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January 8, 2022
Health Mind & Brain

Scientists predict that the number of people suffering from dementia will triple in less than 30 years

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January 8, 2022
Health Mind & Brain

Researchers expect the number of cases to grow threefold by 2050. Luckily there are some preventive measures that could reverse this worrisome trend.

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December 15, 2021
Space & Exploration

Where did the water from Mars' ancient rivers and lakes go?

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December 15, 2021
Space & Exploration

Finally, scientists have found an important clue

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December 14, 2021
Space & Exploration

Monstrous plasma ejection observed in faraway star system - scientists warn that our sun may also be capable of something similar

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December 14, 2021
Space & Exploration

Astronomers detected the most powerful coronal mass ejection ever observed from a solar-type star. Scientists think that past, similar eruptions from our own sun may have helped shape the way Earth and Mars look today.

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December 12, 2021
Health Mind & Brain

Will you live longer if you start taking it easier as you become older?

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December 12, 2021
Health Mind & Brain
Will you live longer if you start taking it easier as you become older?

In Western nations, it's common to believe that we should slow down, do less, and retire as we become older. A group of Harvard biochemical researchers and biologists decided to put this idea to the test

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December 8, 2021
Technology & Gaming

Scientists developed a wearable textile capable of charging electronics using body movement

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December 8, 2021
Technology & Gaming

Scientists developed a fabric capable of producing energy using body motion utilizing a type of contact electrification known as triboelectric charging

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December 5, 2021
Technology & Gaming

In the future, fuel may be produced by sugar-eating bacteria

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December 5, 2021
Technology & Gaming

Scientists combined chemistry and biology by using genetically engineered bacteria to produce fuel out of sugar.

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December 1, 2021
Space & Exploration

Counterintuitively, most of the water on Earth may have come from the Sun

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December 1, 2021
Space & Exploration
Counterintuitively, most of the water on Earth may have come from the Sun

In an extensive study, an international team of scientists found a surprising source for most of Earth’s surface water, namely the Sun.

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November 29, 2021
Environment & Biology

Your cat maps your location in its head, even when you are out of sight

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November 29, 2021
Environment & Biology

It turns out that cats track their owner's location in their head, even when they are out of sight

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November 28, 2021
Space & Exploration

Why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological

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November 28, 2021
Space & Exploration
Why extraterrestrial intelligence is more likely to be artificial than biological

If extraterrestrial civilizations exist it may very well be that most of them are artificial. In this article Cosmologist Martin Rees explains why.

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November 25, 2021
Space & Exploration

Alien microbes could contaminate Earth: what to do in case of a planetary biosecurity threat?

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November 25, 2021
Space & Exploration

In an effort to outline the hazards of intensifying space exploration scientists wrote a paper about a particular risk that hasn't yet been talked about a lot, namely invasion.

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November 20, 2021
Health Mind & Brain

An unexpected weapon in the fight against antibiotic resistance: microscopic gold particles

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November 20, 2021
Health Mind & Brain

Scientists discovered that gold particles can be very useful in the fight against the growing threat of antibiotic resistance

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November 19, 2021
Technology & Gaming

Scientists took lessons from nature to find a solution for the typical battery capacity loss that occurs over time

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November 19, 2021
Technology & Gaming

The next generation of lithium batteries is being developed using lessons learned from mechanisms found in nature

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