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Illuminating Origin of Organics
NASA's Dawn spacecraft recently detected organic-rich areas on Ceres. Scientists evaluated the geology of the regions to conclude that the organics are most likely native to the dwarf planet.
Printable Solar Cells Just Got a Little Closer
A U of T Engineering innovation could make printing solar cells as easy and inexpensive as printing a newspaper.
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A new Zika vaccine candidate has the potential to protect against the virus with a single dose, according to a research team led by
Life without Oxygen
There is a long established idea that oxygen is the prerequisite element for the creation of life on earth.
The Discovery of Time Crystals
Recently physicists have discovered a whole new form of matter, It is four dimensional matter called time crystal. Normal crystals, like diamonds, are an atomic lattice that repeats in space.
2016 Warmest Year on Record Globally
Earth's 2016 surface temperatures were the warmest since modern recordkeeping began in 1880, according to independent analyses by NASA and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Robot Helps the Heart Beat
Harvard University and Boston Children's Hospital researchers have developed a customisable soft robot that fits around a heart and helps it beat, potentially opening new treatment options for people suffering from heart failure.
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Feeding is paramount to the survival of almost every animal, and just about every living organism is eaten by another.
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As scientists and policymakers around the world try to combat the increasing rate of climate change, they have focused on the chief culprit: carbon dioxide.
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An adolescent orangutan called Rocky could provide the key to understanding how speech in humans evolved from the time of the ancestral great apes, according to new research.
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For all the anxiety today about the bacteria in our gut being under constant assault by antibiotics, stress and bad diets, it turns out that a lot of the bacteria in our intestines have been with us for at least 15 million years, since we were pre-human apes.
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When early terrestrial animals began moving about on mud and sand 360 million years ago, the powerful tails they used as fish may
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The discovery power of the gene chip is coming to nanotechnology. A Northwestern University research team is developing a
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A small asteroid has been discovered in an orbit around the sun that keeps it as a constant companion of Earth, and it will remain so for centuries to come.
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All 36 countries that committed to the Kyoto Protocol on climate change complied with their emission targets, according to a
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A multinational team of astronomers has found an Einstein Ring, a rare image of a distant galaxy lensed by gravity. The scientists, from Spain, Italy and the USA, report their discovery in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Foldable material
Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch.
Mysterious infrared light from space
A research team using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) has detected the faintest millimeter-wave source ever observed.
