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Researchers simulated the effects that different web decorations had on vibrations, adding fresh insight to a decades-old ...

Russian leader Vladimir Putin claimed his nation conducted a successful flight of a nuclear-powered cruise missile. Here’s ...

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Anthony Vaccaro is a research assistant professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He studies the neuroscience of emotion in modern contexts.

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Most musical instruments produce tones whose partial tones, or overtones, are harmonic: their frequencies are whole-number ...

Lightning flashes in the eyewall of Category 5 Melissa are a marker of how strong the storm is. It reached a central pressure ...

A nearly perfect alignment of factors has enabled Hurricane Melissa to become one of the most intense Atlantic storms ever ...

These rare samples, uncovered on the moon by China’s Chang’e 6 mission, might help to reveal secrets of how the solar system ...

New peer-reviewed research reporting strange lights in the pre-space-age sky is sparking curiosity and controversy ...

Theorists have found that a “warm” version of cosmic inflation is consistent with known physics, linking it to the hunt for ...