At a flooded uranium mine in Germany, bacteria pulled off an extremely useful chemical trick. Given glycerol and 130 days ...

This long-running fan theory for The Simpsons has been hinted at for years and finally confirmed to be true in Season 36.

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Before gunpowder, Ancient Greek engineers were already constructing devastating war machines, such as the Claw of Archimedes.

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Have you ever wondered about what makes India so green and so diverse in terms of vegetation? Well, it is the soil below our ...

The ‘external’ story is about the dilemma that faces the field-mouse Mrs Frisby when her son Timothy comes down with pneumonia and needs to rest at home. Alas, this is just when Farmer Fitzgibbon ...

Researchers have created cosmic dust from scratch by recreating space-like conditions inside glass tubes. The dust contains ...

Scientists at Harvard have discovered how salts like lithium bromide break down tough proteins such as keratin—not by attacking the proteins directly, but by altering the surrounding water structure.

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