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Move over, solar energy. Energy from darkness is the new cool

A new device developed by UC Davis scientists works by taking advantage of the temperature difference between the warmth of the Earth and the extreme chill of outer space

Scientists can now caption your thoughts. What could go wrong?

Scientists can now caption your thoughts. What could go wrong?

View of M74, otherwise known as the Phantom Galaxy, taken by the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, in this handout image released August 29, 2022. Photo: NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo

Dark matter may be hiding in a fifth dimension: Study

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Chinese astronauts stranded in space after suspected debris strike

A researcher holds a human brain, part of a collection of more than 3,000 brains at the psychiatric hospital in Duffel, Belgium, July 19, 2017. REUTERS/Yves Herman

Scientists unveil first draft of atlas of the developing brain

James D Watson, co-discoverer of the DNA helix and father of the Human Genome Project, stands inside a laboratory at the Baylor College of Medicine's Human Genome Sequencing Center in Houston May 31, 2007. REUTERS/Richard Carson (UNITED STATES)/File Photo

James D Watson: The genius behind DNA's double helix and the controversy that overshadowed it

An artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding to pieces a massive star at least 30 times the mass of the sun. Photo: Caltech

Astronomers observe black hole flare brighter than 10 trillion suns

Artist's impression shows a star, with a mass at least 30 times the mass of the sun, being shredded in a phenomenon called a tidal disruption event after it strayed too close to a supermassive black hole, with a mass roughly 300 million times that of the sun, in a galaxy located more than 11 billion light-years from Earth, in this image released on November 4, 2025. Caltech/R. Hurt (IPAC)/Handout via REUTERS

Star-eating black hole unleashes record-setting energetic flare

The skeleton of a teenage boy died in 14th century in Edinburgh. Photo: Collected

First evidence of Black Death found in Edinburgh skeleton

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From Apollo to Artemis: Nasa’s bid to rekindle lunar exploration

In this undated photo provided by NASA on Tuesday, 1 March, 2016, astronaut Scott Kelly looks out the cupola of the International Space Station. Photo: AP/UNB

ISS marks 25 years of continuous human presence in orbit

JAXA said the HTV-X1 spacecraft lifted off smoothly atop the No. 7 H3 rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan. Photo: UNB/AP

Japan successfully launches new cargo spacecraft to supply ISS

Microscopic bacteria, mirrrored. Image: NIAID

What is mirror life? Experts are raising red flags