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Being able to erase bad memories and traumatic flashbacks could help treat a host of mental health issues, and scientists have found a promising new approach…

WASHINGTON — Retirements and reassignments have led to a leadership shakeup in part of NASA’s Science Mission Directorate. At a January 12 meeting of three astrophysics…

Neuroscientist Erik Hoël offers some interesting observations about the failure of researchers to “explain” human consciousness (as some sort of mechanism that evolved in the human…

China began building state-of-the-art equipment laser research facilities that will allow scientists to directly observe electrons in action, which they hope will pave the way for…

Photo credit: Boris Dzhingarov, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. In a classic episode of Identify the futureJohn West, executive director of the Center for Science…

J. Fraser Stoddart, a Scottish-born scientist who went from playing with construction toys as a child to building molecular machines a thousand times smaller than the…

Chart 3. Dense time series of Harmonized Landsat Sentinel-2 (HLS) at 30 m (98 ft) resolution revealing winter and summer crops in southern Romania in 2018…

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From icy snow has deadly forest fires, this week’s scientific news has been nothing short of apocalyptic.Flames swept through more than 30,000 acres (12,000 hectares) of…

While most of us take the ground beneath our feet for granted, Earth’s history is written in its intricate layers, like the pages of a book.…