Though the exact length of a "stadia" is unknown, his measurement is thought to be accurate to within one percent of the ...

Still, there was the odd unofficial reprieve given here and there. In 1963, for example, President John F. Kennedy received a ...

What was once the leading explanation for dark matter may have simply been underestimating the mass of the particles that ...

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Studying brain scans from nearly 4,000 people across the whole spectrum of human life, from newborns to 90-year-olds, a team ...

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Demikhov was a pioneer of heart surgery. But thanks to his other, unusual, "interests", that hardly ever gets brought up.

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The team used X-rays to study the formation of platinum crystals in liquid metal. They took platinum beads and dissolved them ...

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The machine learning model also revealed only semi-terrestrial habitats for mesosaurs, a group of marine reptiles from 290 ...