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Researchers in the UK and France found completely contradictory and even sometimes plainly false estimates in previous evidence surrounding the domestication of the European rabbit.
In curling, what happens to the stone on the ice is a whole science lesson in itself.
Researchers from two teams now working with Intel reported advances in a new quantum computing architecture today.
A 26-year-old woman in the US is believed to be the first human ever reported to be infected with a certain species of eye worm.
Matabele ants' search-and-rescue service is unique to the entire animal kingdom.
We’ll never look at hunter-gatherers the same way again.
It’s the first time scientists have detected such a particle just floating along in the atmosphere.
The human body has ways of keeping us alive even in punishingly cold temperatures.
Why did these ancient artists take the time and effort to carve these sculptures in the middle of nowhere?
Winning photographer David Nadlinger, a postgraduate student at the University of Oxford, was just excited to be able to show off his research.
Why does every video from Boston Dynamics serve to make us more anxious about the future?
“This work should support further efforts to develop CRISPR-Cas9 as a therapeutic tool.”
“These stunts make old-school biohackers/self-experimenters look like ignorant fools,”
For thousands of years, this chunk of ice rested above the seafloor, but now scientists are eager to explore the world underneath.
Scientists are using it not to measure what time it is, but changes to time itself.
Experts are sceptical, saying it may not work and that it could wind up misleading — and even hurting — people.
