Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside ...

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Neuroscientists studying the shifts between sleep and awareness are finding many liminal states, which could help explain the ...

A new study led by researchers at the University of Hawaii (UH) at Mānoa published in Nature Communications is the first of its kind to show that waste discharged from deep-sea mining operations in ...

R esearchers have detected hints of life where they did not believe it could exist. Findings regarding this discovery have ...

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The "Avatar" director, who uses performance capture to help create fantasy characters, has consistently raised the level of ...

Stories about the development of life on earth used to be much more compelling. The hands of deities split the mountains and raised the seas. Gods crafted man from dust and dreams: Animals were ...