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Newly released images of Mars reveal a "smiley" salt deposit on the Red Planet's surface. A related study suggests that ...

The European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has unveiled a striking image of a 'smiley face'-shaped salt deposit on ...

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Sep. 17, 2024 — A key step toward reusing CO2 to make sustainable fuels is chaining carbon atoms together, and an artificial photosynthesis system can bind two of ... Using Sunlight to Turn Two ...

September 17, 2024 • A virtual version of a fruit fly’s visual system could help scientists understand how brain networks process information. The model could also lead to more efficient AI ...

Such labels represent a direct smear on scientists' reputations—the coin of the realm in science; as a consequence of this censorship regime, many scientists opt to stay silent or watch from the ...

According to the American Cancer Society, Black men are about 70 percent more likely than white men to develop prostate cancer in their lifetime and twice as likely to die from the disease ...

Physicists Create Heaviest Antimatter Nucleus Yet Antimatter is one of science's great mysteries. It is produced all around us for fractions of a second, until it collides with matter, and the ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. A substantial number of Republican voters are losing faith in science. In April 2020, 14 ...

For almost a century, Science News journalists have covered advances in science, medicine and technology for the general public, including the 1925 Scopes “monkey” trial, the advent of the ...

Sep. 12, 2024 — The movement of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the surface of the ocean, where it is in active contact with the atmosphere, to the deep ocean, where it ... Sep. 11, 2024 — If you ...