Physicists confirm DT fusion insights from a 1938 experiment. The findings connect past theory with current fusion efforts. A ...

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Ettore Majorana vanished in March 1938. According to Frank Close in Destroyer of Worlds, the 31-year-old Sicilian physicist ...

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Rocks from the Hadean Eon, the first period in the geological timescale, have been dated in Québec. These are some of the ...

The 209-million-year-old fossil offers clues to the evolution of the reptiles, which have more than 150 named species ...

The researchers believe that Neanderthals, an extinct species of human known to have lived in that area as far back as ...

You may think you know static electricity, but its true nature has long eluded scientists. We’ve now made a huge leap towards ...

The humble focaccia, a staple of modern Italian cuisine, traces its roots back nearly 9,000 years to the early farming ...

From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...