From the early days of Cornell’s founding to the present, scholars have studied the idea and the practice of democracy – what it means, how it’s...
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For decades, scientists have debated how different Neanderthals and modern humans really were. A newly studied cave in Türkiye is now offering unexp...
A powerful burst of solar activity could give millions of Americans an unexpected chance to witness the northern lights during the Independence Day ho...
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Every time heavy rain hit, something unexpected happened hundreds of feet below the surface. Engineers knew they were witnessing a real phenomenon, bu...
Travel to another star at almost the speed of light and something strange happens to time. You might age only a few years on the journey, while the pe...
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Curiosity has entered a remarkable polygon-covered region on Mars where mysterious dark rocks are giving NASA scientists fresh clues, and new question...
Could Earth be on the verge of gaining a brand-new island? An underwater volcano is driving an extraordinary event beneath the ocean, and scientists a...
A decade after the first gravitational wave detection, scientists have unveiled a massive new catalog filled with remarkable cosmic events....
A subtle signal buried within nearly 5,000 days of observations could mark the strongest evidence yet for a cosmic sea of neutrinos left behind by gen...
Engineers discovered that falling rainwater can unexpectedly reverse airflow deep underground, solving a mystery with important implications for mine ...
Why do people make the choices they do? Researchers from the Center Synergy of Systems (SynoSys) at TUD Dresden University of Technology, the Max Plan...
Two of the most substantially used words in the current global vocabulary of mathematics and computing come from the same 9th-century Persian scholar ...
Ancient DNA reveals how political power and elite status may have been maintained among Iron Age nomadic societies Burial mound “Kurgan Shilikty 16�...
A cache of centuries-old gold coins has helped uncover the story of a lost Dutch trading ship. For nearly 400 years, a merchant ship carrying one of t...
Walk down essentially any commercial street in essentially any Japanese city on essentially any weekday evening in 2026 and you will pass at least one...