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(Inside Science) -- Nearly two-thirds of mammal species in Africa and the Arabian Peninsula may have died off about 30 million years ago, a mass extinction that escaped detection for decades until now ...
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(Inside Science) -- Ever heard of a snap fit? It's kind of a fancy way to describe two pieces of (usually) plastic that fit or snap together. If you take look around your house, you'll probably see ...
(Inside Science) -- Flash photography, meet your match: graphene. "No Flash Photography" signs adorn museums and art galleries across the globe because excessive light can damage or destroy artwork. A ...
(Inside Science) -- Megan Povey has spent half a century building a reputation as a food physicist. She has shown how sound waves can be used as a tool to study food properties, to test food quality ...
(Inside Science) -- Even though he works with spiders regularly, Yao Zhang, a physicist at Jinan University in China, admits he's afraid of them. In fact, most of the people in his lab are, except for ...
(Inside Science) -- Artificial intelligence can design computer microchips that perform at least as well as those designed by human experts, devising such blueprints thousands of times faster. This ...
The accuracy of the next season's weather forecast dives every spring, because of the volatility of Pacific Ocean conditions. (Inside Science) -- Each year, when winter ends, meteorologists notice ...
Scientists link the start of movements in the Earth's crust to increasing amounts of aluminum in crystals about 3.6 billion years ago. (Inside Science) -- Scientists examining billions-of-years-old ...
Scientists have crushed the quest for room temperature superconductors, but only at ridiculously high pressures.
(Inside Science) -- A newfound dinosaur was likely as long as an elephant and was equipped with an extremely powerful bite, very sharp teeth, and huge claws on its feet, researchers say. In the dry ...