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This Black Silicon Catalyst Could Help Turn CO2 From Waste into Fuel

Carbon dioxide is best known as a greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, but scientists are increasingly exploring ways to turn it into...

Trillion-Mile Gas Stream May Explain a Bizarre Triple-Star System

Astronomers have discovered an enormous stream of gas flowing toward a young system of three stars, potentially explaining why its planet-forming disks are strangely...

A Million Years Without Sex Leaves Stick Insects with a Surprising Genetic Secret

Some stick insects have reproduced without sex for around one million years, yet they still carry a fully functioning genetic system associated with sexual...

20 Years of Watching a Blazar Reveals Something Stranger Than Expected

After nearly two decades of observations, astronomers have discovered that a distant blazar behaves in ways that leading theories struggle to explain. Instead of solving...

Just 10 Days After Giving Birth, She Had Heart Attack

A week and a half after giving birth to her second daughter, Amy Mazur-Hession began feeling back pain. At first, she attributed the pain...

His Heart Stopped During A Workout At Age 39. Then It Happened Again 2...

With 10 minutes left in his regular 6 a.m. fitness class, Kyle Hartley paused his rowing workout to grab a drink of water. He took...

Weight-Loss Diabetes Drugs Linked to 21% Lower Risk of Bone Fractures

Medicines such as GLP-1 receptor agonists can help people with type 2 diabetes lose substantial amounts of weight, but doctors have questioned what that...

1 in 4 Adults with Diabetes May Have Hearing Loss

When people think about complications of diabetes, they may think of poor eyesight, kidney disease or numbness in the feet. A growing body of research...

Depression Changes a Key Memory Brain Area in Older People

Depression may be linked to subtle differences in a part of the brain that helps people form and retrieve memories, according to a large...

Smelling Dark Chocolate May Help You Exercise Better

The smell of dark chocolate might do more than make people think about dessert. A small new study suggests that smelling chocolate before and during...

Brain Health at 80 May Be Shaped by 3 Health Choices in Midlife

What happens to the brain in old age may partly depend on the health of the body decades earlier. New research suggests that three common...

Coffee Drinkers May Have a Much Lower Risk of Serious Liver Disease

A large new study suggests that people who regularly drink coffee may have a lower risk of several serious liver problems. Researchers found links between...

This Blood Thinner May Treat Blood Clots in Older Adults Effectively

Older adults who develop a dangerous blood clot often need months or years of treatment to prevent another clot from forming. New research suggests that...

Dirty Air May Cause Rheumatoid Arthritis Flares

People living with rheumatoid arthritis may have another reason to pay attention to air quality. A large study from South Korea found that exposure to...

Scientists Find a Major Cause of Autoimmune Disease

Scientists have discovered a genetic link that may help explain why some people with leukemia also develop autoimmune diseases. Researchers at the Garvan Institute of...

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Scientists Detect Possible Signs That Pluto’s Atmosphere Is Freezing Out

Scientists may have detected the first signs that Pluto's thin atmosphere is beginning to collapse as the dwarf planet slowly travels farther from the...

New Steam Drying Technology Could Cut Industrial Energy Use by Up to 80%

A new drying technology developed by researchers in Germany could dramatically reduce the amount of energy used in industry while helping companies switch from...

New Smart Transistor Could Revolutionize Wearable Health Monitors and Electronic Skin

Researchers in South Korea have developed a flexible electronic device that can switch between different jobs simply by changing the salt concentration around it. The...

MIT Develops New Chip-Making Method That Safely Integrates Molecules into Electronic Devices

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new manufacturing technique that could help unlock the potential of molecule-based electronics. The new...

This Tiny Diamond Defect Could Make Quantum Computers More Practical

Researchers have discovered a new type of defect inside diamonds that could solve one of the biggest challenges facing quantum technology. The newly identified structure...