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Scientists have discovered there is more to Antarctica than meets the eye. A new map of the landscape beneath the frozen ...

A distinctive nebula inside the constellation Lyra holds a never-before-seen cloud of iron atoms—and researchers aren’t sure ...

For years, strange red dots in James Webb images left scientists puzzled. New research shows they are young black holes ...

Puzzling red spots in photos from the James Webb Space Telescope are probably young supermassive black holes obscured by ...

Researchers have consistently tracked a recurring bloom near Antarctica that reliably appears each summer, yet varies ...

Innovation doesn’t always mean creating something entirely new. Some of the most remarkable breakthroughs come from observing ...

Attention can feel like a fragile thing, especially when your brain struggles to sort signal from noise. Every second, your ...

Researchers from the Optics Group at the Universitat Jaume I in Castellón have managed to correct in real time problems ...

The El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), the planet's greatest driver of year-to-year climate swings, shapes temperature, ...

Study shows alpha brain wave frequency shapes how the brain integrates touch and vision to create the feeling that your body ...

A new study from Karolinska Institutet, published in Nature Communications, reveals how rhythmic brain waves known as alpha oscillations help us distinguish between our own body and the external world ...