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Researchers have pioneered a way to create miniaturized copies of a person’s carotid artery that could help doctors predict and manage the patient’s stroke risk, a…

NASA’s Swift Observatory is set to come crashing down to Earth later this year after a private mission failed to save the tumbling telescope.A rescue spacecraft…

In 2010, researchers at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales began an investigation into a macabre question: What’s the upper temperature limit at…

Astronomers have found the most promising candidate yet for a “black hole star,” a new type of astrophysical object lurking in the early universe’s “cosmic dawn.”If…

A cave in eastern Spain is revealing new clues about the ritual lives of Roman women, after archaeologists documented more than 120 Latin inscriptions — the…

Archaeologists have discovered a possible human sacrifice near the pyramid of Huaca Pucllana in the center of Lima, Peru. The skeleton may represent an offering connected…

Cats can identify each other based on the scent of their pee, and researchers have just decoded the secret “messages” that make that possible.A group of…

The brain develops in stages, and it’s important that certain cells form before others so that precise neural connections can emerge later. But miniature models of…

IBM has revealed a new modular, ultracold system designed to link hundreds of quantum computer chips together to solve one of the field’s biggest infrastructure bottlenecks.The…

Concerns are on the rise about young people’s social media use as governments, parents and schools look to curb children’s exposure to threats such as cyberbullying…