Chemist Omar Yaghi invented materials called MOFs, a few grams of which have the surface area of a football field. He explains why he thinks these super-sponges will define the next century ...

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A newly discovered collection of neurons suggests the brain and heart communicate to trigger a neuroimmune response after a heart attack, which may pave the way for new therapies ...

An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

Excavations at an opencast mine in Greece have uncovered two wooden objects more than 400,000 years old that appear to have been fashioned as tools by an unknown species of ancient human ...

The UK is putting £5 million towards a mission to remove two dead satellites from space by burning them up in Earth’s atmosphere ...

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The way time ticks forward in our universe has long stumped physicists. Now, a new set of tools from entangled atoms to black ...

Solar geoengineering could halve the economic cost of climate change, but stopping it would cause temperatures to rebound ...

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Columnist Helen Thomson investigates the neurological benefits of saunas, and how heat therapy can have anti-inflammatory ...

Despite its small size, Mars seems to have a huge impact on the orbital cycles that govern Earth’s climate, especially those ...