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Was the “Big Bang” a cosmic rebound? New study suggests the Universe may have started inside a giant black hole.

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When a beam of infrared light strikes their ultra-thin lens—barely thicker than a red blood cell—it emerges on the other side ...

There’s a new type of LED in town. These light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are made from a material called perovskite, a calcium ...

Hundreds of endangered Australian Green and Golden Bell found a cozy and toasty place to huddle up. Unbeknownst to them, this ...

In a new paper, a group of planetary scientists, biologists, and engineers make the case for treating Mars as the ultimate ...

Jellyfish are brainless, boneless, eyeless creatures that are 95% water. Despite this simplicity, however, they’ve withstood ...

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As archaeologists continue to study Küllüoba—a settlement of the Hattians, the Anatolian people who preceded the ...

About 2,000 feet beneath the ocean’s surface, in the dark stillness off the coast of California, a concrete sphere the size ...