As adults, these large snakes are better known for their slow, lumbering gait, but the researchers discovered that young ...

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Three new full-dome movies will highlight the July schedule at the University of Wyoming Harry C. Vaughan Planetarium.

The field of advanced propulsion and gravity manipulation has long captivated the curiosity of scientists, engineers, and ...

Angular momentum is a fundamental quantity in physics that describes the rotational motion of objects. In quantum physics, it ...

Japan’s Himawari weather satellites, designed to watch Earth, have quietly delivered a decade of infrared snapshots of Venus. By stitching 437 images together, scientists tracked daily thermal tides ...

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Nearly 50 years ago, physicists floated a bold idea: our universe might be stuck in a false vacuum. This state feels stable, but deep down, it's not. Over enormous timescales, it could suddenly tip ...

Quantum researchers finally captured the field’s “holy grail,” showing real machines can beat classical computing ...

John Peoples was asked in the mid-1990s about the value of doing pure scientific research — that which has no predetermined ...

Illinois Wesleyan University is adding two new programs and a new concentration for students in the 2025-26 school year.

New research challenges the myth that left-handers are more creative, showing righties may lead in key creative fields.