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Discover the top stories from Oct. 17 to Oct. 23, 2026, including why thousands of snakes close a road in Illinois twice a year and a mysterious space object found in a farmer's field.
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How can we extend the limits of observation to "see" the seemingly invisible? On Wednesday, November 4, 2026, Katie Bouman, professor of computing and mathematical sciences, electrical engineering and…
The shadow population of deceased relatives is more than three times as large as today’s living population.
How can the identity of pluripotent stem cells be determined more reliably during their differentiation? Researchers from the IUF—Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine and Heinrich…
The United States’ National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has developed a revolutionary new battery that could power the country’s return to the moon while potentially also…
Many of the most potent antibiotics originate from bacteria. A large proportion belong to a class of compounds known as nonribosomal peptides (NRP).
As politics in America become more polarized and each voting cycle seems more fraught than the last, a common narrative in the media is that each election is unique and increasingly unpredictable.
