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[ad_1] The NFL has awarded more than $35 million in grants to fund medical research into brain health and injuries, the league said Thursday. The grants were made as part of a …

[ad_1] A perplexing amount of the planet 's water slips deep into Earth' s interior at some tectonic boundaries, a new comprehensive seismic study of the Mariana Trench region has revealed, reports …

[ad_1] Vue d’artiste d’une planète candidate gravitant autour de l’étoile de Barnard sous la lumière orange teintée de l’étoile naine rouge. Crédit: IEEC / SCIENCE-WAVE, GUILLEM RAMISA L’étoile de Barnard fascine les …

[ad_1] The George Church Society wants to put genomes on block stringsDeanne Fitzmaurice / NGS / Alamy By Alice Klein A new company co-founded by Harvard geneticist George Church wants people to …

[ad_1] An artist’s illustration of two merging neutron stars. Astronomers spotted gravitational waves and light emitted by such an event in August 2017. Credit: National Science Foundation/LIGO/Sonoma State University/A. Simonnet The historic …

[ad_1] This artist's concept has a star-shaped supernova progenitor 2017ein-a blue supergiant star that appeared in a spiral galaxy NGC 3938, located 65 million light-years away. It would have exploded as a …

[ad_1] A large asteroid struck Greenland at the time of humans. How did it affect the planet? A 1.5-kilometer asteroid, intact or in pieces, could have broken into a layer of ice …

[ad_1] Residents of the northern hemisphere, look up: In the faint shimmy of a star above you, astronomers have discovered evidence of an alien world. The proposed new planet is unlike anything …

[ad_1] Ride-sharing services have boomed in many urban areas. Researchers are debating their costs and benefits. Alberto Grosescu/Alamy Stock Photo By Alex VerkhivkerNov. 15, 2018 , 1:45 PM Has the boom in …

[ad_1] Unlike the moon or Mercury, where impact craters dominate the landscape, the pock marks caused by meteorite hits are much harder to find on Earth. That is because of the size …