Thanks to a mouse watching clips from “The Matrix,” scientists have created the largest functional map of a brain to date.

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Global assessments of the climate change mitigation potential of biochar diverge, and many rely on a dated analysis, but there is strong evidence for gigaton-scale contribution, concludes a ...

On planets orbiting close to their respective suns, surface water evaporates into space. Planets in the box have the right atmospheric pressure and the right temperature to keep surface water in a ...

Many other frog species camouflage themselves in the wild, but the poison dart frog uses its brightly colored skin to warn predators that it is unfit to eat. The frog's skin secretes a dangerous ...

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