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A new study, led by the University of Vienna and the Alfred Wegener Institute in Bremerhaven, shows how the eyes of adult ...

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Materials that are essential for the transition to a sustainable society are currently being extracted using methods that are ...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but the brain just wants to take it easy. In A Nutshell Your brain prefers images that require less energy to process. Researchers found that photos people ...

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Evolution is neither purposeful nor intentional: it has no ideal, aim, or end-point. For evolutionary change, there are no ...

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The decision to decide what basic science research projects are worthy of funding must be left to scientists, not politicians.

A medicinal chemist from Austria had an idea and clubs, including Dortmund, have taken note. But how is saliva used to ...

Quantum 2.0: The Weird Physics Driving a New Revolution in Technology by Paul Davies (Feb. 6, $26, ISBN 978-0-226-84932-4) ...