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A new study explains how birds maintain sharp eyesight despite their retinas lacking blood vessels, finally resolving a ...

These underground rodents are the first mammals found to actively choose air with lower-than-normal oxygen levels. Their ...

Superionic water—the hot, black and strangely conductive form of ice that exists in the center of distant planets—was ...

Two large dogs died and an adult and two children were displaced in a smoky residential fire on Draper Avenue near Greenbank ...

Water doesn’t behave the same way in a glass as it does as ice in your freezer. When water is heated to several thousand ...

At extreme pressures and temperatures, water becomes superionic — a solid that behaves partly like a liquid and conducts ...

The seawater-based zinc-air battery fabricated with Cl–Fe–N4 demonstrates a power density of 187.7 mW and maintains stable ...

If you've ever been frying up some juicy burgers and become worried at the sight of red liquid, don't worry, it's not blood.

Many people still don’t understand how protein works, why it matters or the best ways to get enough of it in their diet. Here ...

Microscopic ocean algae produce a huge share of Earth’s oxygen—but they need iron to do it. New field research shows that ...