Researchers found that rat cells are able to make cellular connections in the hippocampus, the memory center, of a mouse’s brain.

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Is '3 Body Problem' based on scientific fact? An expert weighs in.

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Several thousand years ago, the Ross Ice Shelf and the glaciers feeding it thinned dramatically, raising sea levels. A new study suggests this was triggered by a rearrangement of ocean currents set off by a minor amount of ocean warming.

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Roughly the size of Spain, the Ross Ice Shelf juts out from the West Antarctic coast and floats on waters south of New Zealand. The ice shelf buttresses roughly a dozen major glaciers, slowing their flow into the ocean.

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Colonial false gold coral (Savalia) demonstrates its bioluminescence on a Bahamian reef. This form of bioluminescence in octocorals is the oldest yet dated.

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Jupiter’s moon Io may have been volcanically active throughout its life.
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A new road map shows how to stop viral spillovers to prevent future pandemics. Step one? Build fewer roads into intact ecosystems.
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A new technique forges diamonds within a liquid metal without cranking up the pressure.

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Today marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the water disaster in Flint, Mich. 🧵

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For the first time in nearly a century, physicists have identified a brand new type of magnetic material.

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Some scientists have proposed that an impact that created Pluto’s heart also created a dense, subterranean ocean of liquid water, which has kept Sputnik Planitia situated at the equator.

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Bat species host four of nine diseases that have the greatest potential risk to public health. Here’s a new road map for how to prevent those diseases from jumping to humans.
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Aimee Grant's scientific research focuses on what autistic people need in the present moment, rather than on potential treatments.
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More than half a billion years ago, the deep, dark ocean was aglow with the eerie light of bioluminescent corals.

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Jupiter’s icy moon Europa may possess a subsurface sea and is considered one of the most promising worlds to explore for life.

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Ahead of the summer, federal weather and health officials have released an online tool that forecasts impact of heat on health for people in the U.S. The HeatRisk Forecast Tool allows users to find the health risk posed by heat for their local area.

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