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Scientists just discovered Africa is closer to breaking apart than we thought

Eastern Africa's Turkana Rift is known both for its rich record of early human fossils and for intense volcanic activity…

5 days ago

Scientists were wrong about lifespan. Your genes matter way more than we thought

What influences how long we live, and how much of that is written in our genes? For many years, scientists…

3 weeks ago

Earth’s most powerful ocean current didn’t form the way we thought

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current carries more than 100 times the total flow of all the world's rivers combined. It circles…

3 weeks ago

A strange twist in the universe’s oldest light may be bigger than we thought

Researchers investigating a mysterious cosmic phenomenon called cosmic birefringence have created a new approach to reduce uncertainty in how it…

1 month ago

50 year quest ends with creation of silicon aromatic once thought impossible

Major scientific advances often require patience, and this discovery is a prime example. After nearly 50 years of theory and…

2 months ago

China’s “artificial sun” just broke a fusion limit scientists thought was unbreakable

Scientists working with China's fully superconducting Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak (EAST) have successfully reached a long-theorized "density-free regime" in fusion…

4 months ago

ADHD drugs don’t work the way we thought

Prescription stimulant drugs such as Ritalin and Adderall are commonly used to treat attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), including among…

4 months ago

A new superconductor breaks rules physicists thought were fixed

Something unexpected is happening inside a material called platinum-bismuth-two (PtBi2). According to a new study from researchers at IFW Dresden…

4 months ago

Life found in a place scientists thought impossible

In a new study, first author Palash Kumawat from the University of Bremen's Geosciences Department and his team investigated how…

6 months ago

Toyota’s New FJ Cruiser Might Show Up Sooner Than We Thought

All signs indicate Toyota is about to introduce a new, smaller off-road SUV. The company hasn’t said much about the…

7 months ago