Viruses typically aren’t considered ‘alive,’ as many core biological functions are outsourced to their potential hosts. But a newly discovered organism appears to straddle the line between virus and ...

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In 1995, a pair of scientists discovered a planet outside our solar system orbiting a solar-type star. Since that finding—which won the scientists a portion of the 2019 Nobel Prize in ...

Some things in cosmology may simply be unknowable. Why is there something rather than nothing? What lies outside the universe? What is inside a black hole? That last one has been niggling at ...

Phones are an integral part of our lives, and ensuring they have a stable internet connection is crucial. Everyone has a carrier they use. Sometimes that connection may not be as reliable as we hope.

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS). Attack Vector: This metric reflects the context by which vulnerability ...

These "nucleation" events are the first steps toward freezing. What they found was surprising: silicon and sulphur, elements often assumed to be present in the core, actually slow down the freezing ...

A study by researchers at the University of Oxford, University of Leeds, and University College London has identified a new constraint on the chemistry of Earth's core, by showing how it was able to ...

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An artistic rendering of a magnetar—or highly magnetized neutron star—losing material into space. The magnetic field lines, shown in green, direct the movement of charged material. NASA / JPL-Caltech ...

Heterochromatin, sometimes known as the “dark side of the genome,” is a poorly studied fraction of DNA that makes up about half of our genetic material. For more than 50 years scientists have puzzled ...

Taxpayers can still receive a stimulus check up to $1,400 depending on how they filed their 2021 tax returns. The Internal Revenue Service announced in December that it would be distributing about ...