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In flight tests, a lean-burn engine cut soot about a thousandfold, but tinier exhaust particles that can seed contrails ...

If Earth instantly stopped spinning, the physics of a car crash would happen on a planetary scale. If Earth suddenly stopped spinning, the ground would stop and everything on it would not. That ...

Animals experience the world in surprising ways humans cannot, a difference at the heart of this year’s World Animal Day theme.

A study tracked one cotton T-shirt from mill to landfill and found 44 percent of its fiber was wasted before it reached a store.

The same objects can trigger different pupil responses depending on whether people judge qualities such as glossiness or attractiveness.

Paper2Agent turns research papers into AI agents that run each study's own code, and three of them helped flag a likely ...

Of 1,357 AI devices the FDA has cleared for use in patient care, three were tested on whether patients lived longer or better.

Deep Nullarbor caves slowly collapsed and left shallow trenches behind, clues that may help geologists spot buried caves, ...

Network stability often improves when a system's parts differ, but only inside a narrow band, and a big enough mismatch ...

On a clear photo, today’s AI vision models can name a bear or a mushroom about as reliably as a person can. Rebuild an object ...

Webb observations reveal how violent collisions between young planetary bodies create distinct dust signatures as rocky ...