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New research has found a way to power spacecraft with lasers generated using solar energy alone.

A lyre in a treasure-laden royal tomb discovered in Mesopotamia is the earliest stringed instrument ever found.

Dangerous strains of E. coli bacteria can infiltrate the food supply through many different routes, experts explain.

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NASA’s record-breaking Parker Solar Probe will smash its own personal bests for proximity to the sun and fastest speed by a human-made object when it whizzes past our star on Christmas Eve (Dec. 24). It is unlikely to get significantly…

Use your digital camera to take photos through a spotting scope, and you can capture up-close images of faraway subjects (without having to break the bank).

An open-source database made by MIT engineers houses over 8,000 aerodynamic car designs and could train future AI models to design EVs in the future.

There’s a cosmic ‘Christmas Wreath’ hanging in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb and Chandra telescopes revealed in a sparkly new image.

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today’s oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphere. If so, the ancestor of the oaks we know today was a widespread population that was cleaved…