A more precise definition of the second is crucial to all sorts of physical measurements – but to get there, scientists have to pack up their extraordinarily fragile optical clocks and take them on to ...

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Beekeepers often experience some seasonal losses, but this past winter, more than half of all US honeybee colonies died off, ...

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Researchers used a synthetic version of moon dust to build working solar panels, which could eventually be created within – ...