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Our new study set out to understand what happens to large pieces of floating plastic once they enter the ocean. We developed ...

Harvard mathematics professor Lauren K. Williams just won a MacArthur Foundation "genius grant." She's still focused on ...

This balance—neurons as the silent bee workers, waves as the queen’s rhythm holding the hive together—suggests consciousness ...

Virtual particles exploit the natural fuzziness of the subatomic world, where if these ephemeral particles live briefly enough, they can also briefly borrow their energy from empty space. The haziness ...

The blob is a large-scale marine heat wave in the northern Pacific Ocean. It was first detected in 2013 and was caused by a ...

The training scenario’s planners didn’t hold back during their runthrough. According to the ESA, the workshop centered on a ...

Below the waves of the Mediterranean, Europe's KM3NeT neutrino telescope is on a cosmic hunt. Towering strings of sensors ...

These types of changes are "going to affect us, because we rely on the ocean for our air, our food, our climate regulation.” ...