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Will the pole shift actually happen? Discover more about Earth’s magnetic poles and how they’ve shifted in the past.

Cosmic rays, high-energy particles that travel through space, have puzzled scientists for decades. One particular feature of ...

A new dual-light microscope lets researchers observe micro- and nanoscale activity inside living cells without using dyes.

Microscopic magnetic fossils found in North Atlantic seafloor sediments may represent components of an internal "GPS system" ...

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Yet according to physics, information is never destroyed. In principle, a burned book is just as readable as the original—if ...

Plastic and microplastic pollution has become a defining environmental concern of our time; headlines warn that these ...

LHAASO has uncovered that micro-quasars, black holes feeding on companion stars, are powerful PeV particle accelerators.

Milestone results released by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) on November 16 have solved a ...

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth ...