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Scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory recreated part of the intense chaos inside a nuclear fireball to better understand how radioactive fallout forms. Their experiments revealed that the way vaporized materials cool can dramatically change the particles that eventually form, especially for volatile elements like cesium...

Science & Nature Long before scientists began studying them in the lab, mind-altering substances were already being gathered from plants, fungi and even animals...

Science & Nature In an analysis of 390 traditionally cultivated cacao trees representing traditional Amazonian varieties, researchers identified four previously unknown genetic lineages, with...

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Science & Nature For the first time, researchers have extracted ancient human DNA directly from the walls of a cave. The post Scientists Recover Ancient...

A four-week diet change was enough to make some older adults appear biologically younger in a new University of Sydney study. Participants who reduced fat intake or shifted toward more plant-based protein showed improvements in key health biomarkers tied to aging. The strongest results came from a lower-fat...

Science & Nature Researchers at Binghamton University have applied a 70-year-old theory of information to the viral word game Wordle, revealing how a carefully...

Science & Nature Plus 1950s personality tests and other weird things we learned this week. The post Scientists used melted mummy juice to make sourdough...