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The simplest explanation — that Punctum is an extreme example of something familiar — hasn’t been ruled out. A magnetar in an ...

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Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...

Type 1 diabetes occurs when the immune system mistakenly destroys beta cells in the pancreas, which produce insulin. For ...

It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...