Scientists are investigating new ways to bring patients back from a vegetative state—and raising uncomfortable questions about the limits of consciousness.

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To make fusion reactors, we need materials that can withstand its punishing environment, and a new Chinese-made material can ...

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Some scientists believe humans became bipedal to adapt to climate change, but our closest primate ancestors complicate that ...

The Tintina fault is thought to have been inactive for more than 40 million years, but new research suggests that earthquakes ...

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The Rhisotope Project is embedding radioactive isotopes in the horns of rhinos in an effort to prevent poaching. Rhinos previously injected with the isotopes during Rhisotope's test phase turned out ...

Like the proverbial tree falling in the forest, scientists wonder: does reality exist on its own . . . or just when you observe the world?

If Sir Isaac Newton’s wildest dream is finally coming true, we could be on the brink of a new type of gold rush.