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In the canopies of a South American rainforest, a tiny soldier termite has stunned a team of international scientists with ...

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Professor Neil Thurman and Sina Thäsler-Kordonouri from the Department of Media and Communication (IfKW) at LMU have ...

Spain's government said Friday it had not ruled out an accidental laboratory leak as the cause of an outbreak of African ...

The carbon cycle in our oceans is critical to the balance of life in ocean waters and for reducing carbon in the atmosphere, ...

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The microbe Pyrodictium abyssi is an archaeon—a member of what's known as the third domain of life—and an extremophile. It ...

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) such as ChatGPT has arrived in classrooms and sparked an intense debate about its ...

Stars form in massive clouds of gas called molecular clouds. As they form, they accrete gas from these clouds, and as the ...

A team from the Faculty of Physics and the Center for Quantum Optical Technologies at the Center of New Technologies, ...