Gold and other heavy elements are born in some of the universe’s most violent events—but scientists still struggle to understand the nuclear steps that create them. Now, nuclear physicists have ...

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The Red Queen warned Alice, ‘Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place.’ Her quip ...

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Kusano shrine, destroyed by the 2011 tsunami and later rebuilt, stands in fields in Namie, Fukushima Prefecture, Thursday, ...

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A multimillion-dollar government project is betting that particle accelerators can "burn" through the world's most dangerous ...

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In the 20th century, scientists began to suspect Earth was a lot older than we thought. It was our old friends/deadly foes, ...

Homo erectus skulls from China’s Yunxian archaeological site revealed ages close to two million years—a million years older ...