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Scientists from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, and their international partners, reveal today their pick of the top 10 ...

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For more than a century, scientists have wondered why physical structures like blood vessels, neurons, tree branches, and ...

Design refinements boost performance of self-aligning ball bushing while maintaining their error-correcting nature.

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While Earth was famously hit by a meteor that killed off the dinosaurs, many others have also hit our planet, many of them ...

Here, we discuss a case that involves received GPS signals through a light rain event, with incident energy at 1.57542 GHz ...

Spider silk occupies a distinct place in natural materials science for its combination of mechanical strength, toughness and ...

Historian Joan Taylor explores the harsh political reality behind the nativity—Herod’s rule, Roman power, revolt, and ...

What’s keeping them off the street is a challenge robotics researchers have circled for decades. Building robots is easier than making them function in the real world. A robot can repeat a TikTok ...