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Researchers have created an unusually twisted molecule with a never-before-seen electronic structure.The new molecular architecture, dubbed half-Mӧbius topology, “is another knob that we can turn in…

Could ancient humans really have built the pyramids without extraterrestrial help? Or do such questions reveal more about modern anxieties than the past itself?The idea that…

Beavers’ dams and ponds can turn a stream corridor into a net annual carbon sink, drawing in more carbon than it released over the course of…

Quick FactsWhat it is: Star PicII-503 inside the Pictor II dwarf galaxyWhere it is: 150,000 light-years from Earth in the Pictor constellationWhen it was shared: March…

It’s easy to think of pupils as simple holes that widen in the dark and shrink in the light. But if you look across the animal…

Molecular vibrations can “catapult” electrons across solar materials in quadrillionths of a second‬ ‪— much faster than previously thought, a new study shows.The findings could help…

While devices like smartphones and laptops are ubiquitous now, these machines weren’t always so common. The origins of computing go back well before the advent of…

Humans have evolved the ability to live anywhere on Earth, thanks to gradual changes to our biology and our knack for developing new technologies, like clothes…

This week’s science news was packed with stories that highlighted humanity’s complex, often-fraught relationship with nature, with forecasters predicting the possible onset of a “super El…

Humans are the only species with a chin — a feature absent from even our closest relatives. Indeed, it’s such a unique anatomical quirk that it’s…