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Scientists have created a comprehensive map of smell receptors in the mouse nose, revealing a few surprises about this fundamental sense.Smell receptors, or olfactory receptors, were…
A chance discovery of a broken bronze cup in Spain has revealed a 1,900-year-old depiction of Hadrian’s Wall and forts in England, a new study reports.…
A newly developed technique could teach AI algorithms to see the universe with unprecedented clarity — potentially exposing the cracks in our understanding of the cosmos.Our…
Birds have spread their wings the world over, but they first took flight at least 150 million years ago, during the dinosaur age.In his new book…
Drilling has begun at Pe’ Sla, a sacred site in South Dakota, following the U.S. Forest Service’s decision to permit exploratory sites — despite the land…
QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Rokan River, Sumatra, Indonesia [2.2294556537, 100.62990147]What’s in the photo? Brushstroke-like patterns of sediment painted by a high tideWhich satellite took the photo?…
In the 1970s, paleontologist John Ostrom revived the theory that modern birds are evolved from theropod dinosaurs, a group that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. But a key…
An Australian startup is building what could become one of the world’s first “biological data centers” — augmenting silicon computing chips with those seeded with living…
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Scientists have long assumed our universe would continue on for trillions of years, but a new study presents a much shorter life span for the cosmos:…
