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Now, researchers at Sweden’s Karolinska Institutet say they’ve found the clearest answer yet. They report the discovery of ...

On a warm summer afternoon, when your throat runs dry, reaching for a glass of water might feel like the most natural thing ...

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In one of Stanford’s labs, a roll of Scotch tape spins under a motorized roller. To the untrained eye, it’s an ordinary strip ...

Orcas, also known as killer whales, are among the most intelligent and social of marine mammals. They live in tight-knit pods ...

The system is set up to only strike targets flying under one meter per second. Mosquitoes fly, on average, 1 to 1.5 ...

In practical terms, a one standard deviation increase in IQ (about 15 points on the classic scale) led to a nearly 20% ...

A new study reveals that humans were extensively using fire to modify landscapes as far back as 50,000 years ago. That’s at ...

This geometric figure — first identified by dentist William Bonwill in 1864 — is formed by connecting the two points where ...

Long before humans walked the Earth, while dinosaurs were still roaming the land, a parasitic fungus hijacked the mind of a ...

Seasonal Body Image Dissatisfaction (SBID) was formally coined in a 2021 study, and the effect is remarkably pervasive.