The Dirty Truth About Turning Seawater Into Drinking Water
The ocean can help solve our freshwater crisis, but we need to do something about all the brine.
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The ocean can help solve our freshwater crisis, but we need to do something about all the brine.
New research combines two microscopy methods to image and examine brains like never before.
Saturn’s rings might have formed relatively recently—like, in the past hundred million years or so—according to new research.
The ancient signs of life were discovered in a body of water buried beneath over a kilometre of Antarctic ice.
Dating back to 1885, it’s now the oldest known classroom chart displaying the periodic table of the elements.
The Large Hadron Collider’s successor could be coming as soon as 2040.
Three-dimensional replicas of human blood vessels grown in a petri dish could be key in better understanding diabetes.
If you’re a coffee aficionado, brace yourself because I’ve got some bad news for you.
Engineers in Switzerland say they’ve found a way to make a four-legged robot even harder to fight off.
This isn’t the first time we’ve seen something... like this.
China’s miniature biosphere experiment has yielded a sprouting cotton seed.
Potato depression is obviously nothing like human depression, of course.
“There is no doubt about the existence of the Mona Lisa effect – it just does not occur with Mona Lisa herself.”
Astronomers using the ALMA telescope have discovered a configuration that up until this point only existed in theory.
A new investigative report in the BMJ highlights just how far Coca-Cola has gone to protect its profits across the globe.
Scientists have measured a fundamental property of a supermassive black hole—how fast it spins—by measuring a star slamming into it.
