Lithuania vs. China: A Baltic Minnow Defies a Rising Superpower
VILNIUS, Lithuania — It was never a secret that China tightly controls what its people can read and write on their cellphones. But it came as a shock to…
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How the Cuttlefish’s Robust Memory System Defies Old Age
Can you remember what you had for dinner last weekend? That ability is a function of episodic memory, and how well we can recall the time and place of…
A super-short gamma-ray burst defies astronomers’ expectations
A surprisingly short gamma-ray burst has astronomers rethinking what triggers these celestial cataclysms.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…
Gamma-Ray Burst Defies Expectations, Challenges Earlier Theory
A team of scientists in Namibia, in southwest Africa, has recorded a phenomenal cosmic explosion, the brightest so far, of gamma radiation from a collapsing…
A rare glimpse of a star before it went supernova defies expectations
A rare glimpse of a star before it exploded in a fiery supernova looks nothing like astronomers expected, a new study suggests.
Images from the…