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Officials canceled an energy project that put one of the world’s darkest astronomy sites at risk of increased light pollution and vibration.

Physicists artificially slowed down time to reveal the bizarre Terrell-Penrose effect, a consequence of special relativity. This image from the experiment shows a sphere seemingly moving at 99.9 ...

Today the world of Egyptology faces a silent crisis – not of looting, although that plays a part, but of disconnection. Walk into any major museum, from Copenhagen to California, and you see glass ...

Research shows babies as young as two months old can already categorize what they see, offering fresh insight into early ...

Intense radiation emitted by active supermassive black holes—thought to reside at the center of most, if not all, galaxies—can slow star growth not just in their host galaxy, but also in galaxies ...

This is an article in our Guide to the Classics series. I first encountered William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies in ...

Humanity likes to think big. The largest man-made moving object in the world doesn't disappoint, with its sheer size dwarfing ...

Babies as young as two-months-old can categorise objects in their brains, scientists at Trinity College Dublin, Queen's University Belfast and Stanford University have discovered.

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