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A debate has been raging among planetary scientists for more than a decade—why are there so few exoplanets with a radius of about 1.8 times that of Ea...
Few animals put on a show quite like manakins. In the rainforests of Central and South America, males of these small tropical birds, with strikingly b...
Many insects will eat almost anything in their sight, such as certain beetles, grasshoppers and locusts, while others are remarkably picky eaters. For...
Archaeological evidence from the Canary Islands suggests that by the 11th century, people there were harvesting and processing a variety of fish and o...
If we're to reach another star, chemical propulsion will not get us there in any reasonable time frame. We're going to need a different propulsion tec...
When a whale dies, a very special natural phenomenon can come alive. The carcass might float at the surface for some time, attracting sharks and other...
Most people have seen nylon listed as a material on their clothing tags, but nylon is used in an array of other products, too, including automotive pa...
In a first, a large, international team led by multiple labs at Harvard Medical School and Princeton University has published a complete wiring diagra...
Parents who come down hard on their children for telling lies or misbehaving may believe they are teaching the child right from wrong. But new researc...
Archaeologists digging at an Inca site on the arid coast of southern Peru have unearthed two rare, roughly 500-year-old freeze-dried potatoes. The pot...
Some barley beers labeled "gluten-free" contain small amounts of gluten residues that may trigger celiac disease but are not detected by the standard...
A new study reveals that, for the first time, areas of Canada's boreal peatlands damaged by oil and gas exploration have failed to recover as scientis...
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