Though the Biosphere 2 experiment is often described as a test run of a future space colony on the Moon or Mars, the project in fact had deep environmental roots, says Mark Nelson, one of the ...

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have solved a long-standing mystery involving the first steps of photosynthesis, the ...

‘Tour de force’ experiment probes quantum tunnelling in action Probing photons inside a barrier also challenges a long-standing interpretation of quantum physics.

New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani's proposal for a few city-run stores in food deserts isn’t even radical by American standards.

There's an economic fantasy you sometimes hear in D.C. It often gets trotted out when politicians are trying to add billions or trillions to the national debt. They claim that all the new spending ...

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