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NASA tests the engine for the most powerful rocket ever built, designed for deep-space missions.

Viral solar panels could be most efficient ever.

All Tesla’s new cars will come with the necessary hardware to drive themselves.

New technique allows scientists to read the pages of an ancient text without opening the book.

The death throes of nearby stars might have influenced evolution on Earth.

To make it easier to sift through data on proteins, a composer and a biologist turned them into music, an approach that could have many applications.

Surveillance tech Star Trek would love.

They could someday help millions get their voices back.

Transplanted embryonic neurons can properly connect into the developed visual cortex of adult mice and improve the animals’ sensitivities to visual cues over time, scientists reported today (October 26) in Nature. By demonstrating that added neurons can become fully functional in circuits that normally do not rewire in adulthood, the team’s results suggest that the brain may be more plastic than previously thought.