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How does light turn into motion within a metal? A team of researchers from European XFEL, the University of Potsdam and other participating institutio...
Imagine returning to a favorite hiking trail 15 years after your first visit and discovering that many of the plants and animals that once lived there...
Researchers from the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research (WSL) have proposed a warning tool that predicts, up to three wee...
People living in regions with lower scores on the Human Development Index face a substantially higher risk from climate-related disasters, even when t...
A new study of two supernova remnants, the debris left behind after stars explode, suggests the explosions came from stellar siblings that once orbite...
Mosses are survivors. They can dry into what looks like green dust, only to spring back to life minutes after rain. They can grow on rocks, in deserts...
Soils that are exposed to prolonged drought often develop desiccation cracks, which impact soil properties and exacerbate moisture loss through evapot...
Finding life beyond our solar system is a major goal of modern astronomy. NASA's planned Habitable Worlds Observatory (HWO) aims to take direct images...
Compostable plastics could be part of a solution to the world's plastic waste problem. But currently these materials need industrial composting facili...
Millions of light-years away, millions of years ago, a star exploded. In this violent process, it ejected incredible amounts of mass, including carbon...
This NASA Hubble Space Telescope image features a galaxy cluster called CL0016+1609, or MACS J0018.5+1626, that is very bright at X-ray wavelengths an...
When heat waves hit the Western United States, the risk of wildfires quickly rises. The prolonged heat dries out vegetation, but that's only part of t...
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