Scientists recently discovered something about male mice that’s utterly bananas: The distinctive scent of a banana stresses them out.Researchers from…
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By Grace Wade People outside the US Capitol protest against gun violence after a mass shooting at an elementary school…
Annual PTR (per 1000) (blue, solid line), MST (%) (black, dashed line), Italy, 1916–2020 (with the exception of 1943–1945 during…
A super-sized atom plus a cold ion have been combined to make a completely new molecule that is 4 micrometres…
Spinal cord stimulation (SCS) for chronic pain involves delivering low levels of electricity directly into the spinal cord using an…
If you’ve ever had an imaginary argument in your head, you may have “heard” two voices at once. Your own…
Kristina Carlson didn’t think much about the tick she pulled off her torso while she was hiking in the mountains…
Last July a premonition persuaded the Ashaninka Indigenous people of the western Amazon basin to undertake a great traditional expedition.…
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The demand for cash increases in times of crisis since many people consider banknotes and coins…
Harbour seals may sound different than expected from their body size. Is this ability related to their vocal talents or…
As part of its Innovative Advanced Concepts programme, NASA has given a major award to a team working on solar…
Originally designed to treat medication-resistant epilepsy in children, the ketogenic diet has become popular in recent years due to evidence…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain NASA officials gave an update Thursday on the status of the Artemis I moon rocket launch…
CLIMATEWIRE | For the next five summers, extreme heat and other climate change impacts will threaten the reliability of California’s…
A robot that uses its spiked feet to cling to the mucus-covered lining of the gut could one day climb…
With an increasing amount of people choosing to follow a plant-based diet meal plan, we asked the experts what plant-based…
A new warp speed experiment could finally offer an indirect test of famed physicist Stephen Hawking’s most famous prediction about…
A crossword-solving AI has beaten more than a thousand of the best human solvers at the prestigious American Crossword Puzzle…
Artistic interpretation of inversions in the human genome. Credit: Isabel Romero Calvo/EMBL Researchers at EMBL Heidelberg found that inversions in…
Credit: Starstuff/Shutterstock.com Men appear to “borrow” free time from their female partners to keep up their exercise but women don’t…
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Extreme weather events can exert profound impacts on society, economy and environment. However, short instrumental data limits our…
Nearly a year and a half since COVID vaccines were first authorized for emergency use in adults, the shots remain…
Sharks have long inspired our fascination and our fear. However, a growing body of scientific evidence has shown that instead…
At its heart, physics is the study of symmetries. In the 1950s Chien-Shiung Wu made a fundamental discovery about how…
On May 4, three-and-a-half years into its mission, NASA’s InSight lander registered the largest “marsquake” ever detected. The magnitude 5.0…
Parkinson’s disease and Lewy body dementia belong to a family of neurodegenerative disorders called synucleinopathies because they are caused by…
When you daydream, or ruminate on something bothersome, or ponder the past, or plan for the future, the part of…
Biologists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and their collaborators have discovered an aberrant protein that’s deadly…
Lots of people perform them, but what are the benefits of squats? Well, as it turns out, plenty! Athletes and…
The white supremacist who drove 200 miles to a Buffalo, N.Y., supermarket and opened fire, killing 10 people, had posted…