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Data from NASA and NOAA satellites show that the average area covered by the Antarctic…
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U.S. Federal health agencies have started to tighten security surrounding the research on deadly pathogens.…
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A new study has calculated the energetic cost of growing a bigger brain. If humans…
Using phase contrast tomography to X-ray a human breast from multiple angles and by then…
A controversial new claim made by archaeologists states that the Easter Island moai statues could…
Scientists are exploring the mystery of a distant and very bright quasar that dates to…
A careful study of ancient artifacts in Italy has pushed back the earliest documented appearance…
A team of Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research has developed a…
It’s always been contentious when primates started climbing trees. The discovery of some new ankle…
Bees are the world’s most important pollinators, and without them, the planet would quickly go…
Finding that large membranes engineered from single sheets of graphene allow small molecules to pass…
Currently, there is a scientific consensus that females are hitting puberty earlier than before, developing…
Using four submillimeter telescopes working simultaneously around the globe, a team of astronomers from the…
When a beluga’s caretakers heard noises that sounded like garbled phrases emanating from its enclosure,…