Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) scientists conducted lab experiments to address a mystery about the origins of frozen ...

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It took about 50 exploding stars to upend cosmology. Researchers mapped and measured light from Type Ia supernovae, the ...

Trump wants to leave it on the Red Planet. Louis Friedman is co-founder and former executive director of the Planetary Society. The three big questions about life — What is life? How did life ...

Colorado is no stranger to afternoon thunderstorms during the summer, and this often will create bright displays of color.

The Langlands program has inspired and befuddled mathematicians for more than 50 years. A major advance has now opened up new ...

This valuable manuscript addresses the longstanding question of how the brain maintains serial order in working memory, proposing a biologically grounded model based on synaptic augmentation ...

When two fluids don't mix well, they sometimes form strange patterns called "viscous fingering," or Saffman-Taylor ...

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