Essentially, the helicity "barrier" alters turbulent dissipation, changing how fluctuations dissipate and how the plasma is heated. The team has now analyzed data from the Parker Solar Probe, and it ...

It turns out that whoever named the great white shark must have been underneath one, looking up, when they did so: “The name ...

Four new tarantula species have been discovered in the Arabian Peninsula and the Horn of Africa. While that is remarkable in ...

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In Kenya, though, there’s one giraffe who doesn’t fit in with the others. Dazzlingly white and mysteriously unnamed, he’s the only known such creature in the world: a giraffe with the rare genetic ...

The answer that has eluded scientists for decades also has implications for how carbon is stored in the ocean.

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Even the largest sharks don’t have bones, which presents an obstacle to palaeontologists, but they’ve found a workaround.

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O n May 18, 1991, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev departed Earth for the Soviet space station Mir. While he was up there, the country that had sent him ceased to exist, making Krikalev – for a few months at ...

On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

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