Harbour seals may sound different than expected from their body size. Is this ability related to their vocal talents or…
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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…
(A) Deletion mutations in GhCesA4, 7 and 8 gene resulted a in dramatic reduction of plant growth. (B) The fiber…
The main difference between frogs and toads can be seen in their hind legs and skin. Both frogs and toads…
CLIMATEWIRE | A blistering heat wave in India and Pakistan last month sent temperatures soaring above 120 degrees Fahrenheit, all…
Credit: Olin Feuerbacher / USFWS How the Devil’s Hole pupfish has survived for centuries in a spalike cistern cloistered by…
More new human cases of monkeypox have been identified worldwide, with dozens reported in the U.K. alone. The increase comes…
Galileo Galilei was the founder of modern physics. To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap…
Bitcoin is a digital currency which operates free of any central control or the oversight of banks or governments. Instead…
A pair of newfound species of glass frog — amphibians with transparent underbellies that put all their internal organs on…
Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphins take their skin care seriously — in fact, the marine mammals medicate their skin by rubbing up…