The Marble Caves sit on the shores of a turquoise glacial lake in southern Chile. Light bounces off the water onto the walls, ...

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The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period.

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In a recent article, researchers explored how calcium carbonate nanoparticles enhance T cell activation through calcium ...

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This jet streaming out of a supermassive black hole is traveling at nearly the speed of light. Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech illustration Superman may fly faster than a speeding bullet, but he'd ...

Mineral crystals in heart cockles’ shells protect symbiotic algae from ultraviolet rays and could lead to innovations in internet infrastructure.

Tiny, solid windows in the shells of heart cockles let in light for the photosynthetic algae inside them – and they could show us how to make better fibre-optic cables ...