Scientists have long overlooked white dwarfs as hosts for habitable exoplanets, assuming their lack of fusion would make life impossible. But new climate models challenge that idea, showing that ...

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Among the roughly 10 billion white dwarf stars in the Milky Way galaxy, a greater number than previously expected ...

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, University of California, Irvine researchers report ... professor of Earth system science and ecology & evolutionary biology and one of ...

Two human cells making RNA made visible by the bioluminescent lantern in pink (middle image). On the left ... unevenly and is concentrated at specific locations. Credit: UC Irvine The inner workings ...

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A "super-Earth" planet found outside of our solar system could have conditions suitable for life, according to experts at the University of Oxford. Researchers said the planet has a mass six times ...

MANILA, Philippines — The Philippines might only be able to break free from the “middle-income trap” in 2050 as it struggles to corner more job-generating foreign investments, Nomura said in ...