Inspired by the Japanese art of kirigami, an MIT team has designed a technique that could transform flat panels into medical devices, habitats, and other objects without the use of tools.

The vast majority of our planet’s oceans remain unexplored, hiding secrets that challenge everything we thought we knew about human history and geology. Every so often, sonar technology or daring deep ...

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Far beneath us, large low shear velocity provinces (LLSVPs) and ULVZs under Africa and the Pacific at Earth's core-mantle boundary may be relics of a core-leaking infancy. Trump wants nations to pay ...

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Scientists may finally be closing in on the origins of two colossal, mysterious structures buried nearly 1,800 miles inside Earth—hidden formations that have puzzled researchers for decades. New ...

If we can fully map the structure of our brains, will we be able to understand how they work? That is the goal of researchers attempting to build a wiring diagram, or connectome, of our neural ...

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Colossal volcanic eruptions like the kind that may have obliterated the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago are caused by mantle plumes that rise from shifting underground mountains deep within ...

Astronomers have explained how a galaxy cluster maintains its heat, despite emitting X-rays that cool the hot gas at its center. The group discovered the existence of a fast-moving, high-temperature ...