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A humble concept from ancient Japanese design might remake the way supplies are dropped from the air. Polytechnique Montréal ...

An international research collaboration has harnessed supercomputing power to better understand how massive slabs of ancient ...

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For decades, scientists engaged in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) have probed the galaxy for signs of ...

New ways to measure thawing permafrost could help us understand its potential impacts on infrastructure, military outposts, ...

The obsession with economic output as a measure of human development puts sustainability on the back burner. Researchers can ...

Scientists have been working for the last few years on enhancing concrete – arguably the most common construction material on ...

A recent paper has proposed a new idea for what is causing the observed accelerated expansion of the universe, and dark ...