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A dense network of sensors is looking for the fleeting footprints of neutrinos, the most mysterious in the pantheon of known particles.

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Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have investigated 70 dusty galaxies at the very edge of the universe that ...

The deep sea is cold, dark and under immense pressure. Yet life has found a way to prevail there, in the form of some of Earth’s strangest creatures. Since deep-sea critters have adapted to near ...

Johns Hopkins scientists say they have used 3D imaging, special microscopes and artificial intelligence (AI) programs to ...

In “The Oak and the Larch,” Sophie Pinkham examines a vast history and culture through the branches of its ancient trees. By Joshua Hammer Joshua Hammer is the author of “The Mesopotamian Riddle: An ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: To understand the mantle—the largest layer of Earth’s rocky body—scientists drill deep cores out of the Earth. Scientists drilled the deepest core ...