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NASA marks 25 years on the International Space Station, highlighting robotic systems, life support recycling, 3D printing, solar power research, and global student STEM engagement for future space ...

Lithium could be selectively extracted from "low quality" brines using a surprising mechanism discovered at the University of ...

A new acoustic levitation technique combines sound waves and electric charge to control multiple particles without physical ...

The microscopic processes taking place in superconductors are difficult to observe directly. Researchers at the RPTU ...

Scientists have managed to observe solar neutrinos carrying out a rare atomic transformation deep underground, converting carbon-13 into nitrogen-13 inside the SNO+ detector. By tracking two faint ...

With support from Microsoft, Stripe, and Shopify, Running Tide billed itself as on the cutting edge of carbon removal. In the ...

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The FDA has approved a device that aims to treat depression by sending electric current into a part of the brain known to ...

Since the time of the dinosaurs, cycad plants may have attracted insects using infrared light. It may be the world's oldest ...

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