In a recent opinion article, marine scientists and electrochemists listed a number of reasons why it's unlikely that metallic ...

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"Cosmic archaeologists" have discovered an iron-deficient second-generation star, which provides evidence of how ancient ...

A novel theory suggests that the current expansion rate of the universe is not fixed, but was in fact quite different in the ...

Just as many of Marvel’s mightiest superheroes are women, many of their strongest villains are women as well. From mystical witches to Lovecraftian monsters, these are the most dangerous women in the ...

An international collaboration, including Northwestern University, has reached a critical milestone in the search for dark matter, the mysterious substance that makes up about 85% of all matter in the ...

Astronomers may have found an exciting new clue about dark energy—the mysterious force driving the universe’s accelerating expansion. They discovered an extraordinarily bright supernova from more than ...

Scientists studying a mysterious effect called cosmic birefringence—a subtle twist in the polarization of the universe’s oldest light—have developed a new way to reduce uncertainty in how it’s ...

A new study raise questions about how scientists use the Small Magellanic Cloud, our neighboring galaxy, as a reference point for understanding galaxies across the history of the universe.

Still in its original galaxy, a rare holdout from the second generation of stars sheds new light on the origins of the elements—and how massive supernovae reshaped the cosmos ...

Over 60 years, the X-Men have recruited some of the most powerful beings in Marvel Comics, with Omega-Level mutants capable of terraforming planets and warping reality with ease. However, none of them ...