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The simple question of "why five" has puzzled scientists from multiple fields, and the answer still isn't enti...

Sometimes bacteria lurking in people's guts can get them drunk, even if they don't consume any alcohol....

Hammer-headed bats are named after the males' oversized boxy heads, which evolved to amplify and project the h...

The research combined radiocarbon dating with measurements of atmospheric radiocarbon from tree rings to build...

Cats are masters of contortion — and the laws of physics — which helps them stick the landing more times than...

The languages of the earliest Americans evolved in 4 waves, according to one expert....

The Maud Rise polynya has been sporadically opening up in Antarctica's ice since at least the 1970s. Now clima...

Infections can trigger pregnancy complications, and now, new miniature versions of the placenta are helping sh...

The wreck near a beach on Mallorca gives a snapshot of sea trade in late Roman times....

A new type of hybrid sodium-ion battery that offers both high capacity and rapid-charging capabilities could p...

Climate models can be a million lines of code long and can take months to run on supercomputers. A new algorit...

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Scientists built a "smart filter" that can work with a cheap smartphone camera to transform low-resolution pho...

Fears of electric vehicle fires are blown out of proportion, but because EVs are heavier on average, they're s...

Scientists have calculated the rotational speed of asteroid 2024 BX1, which exploded over Berlin earlier this...

A study of mice starts to unravel how the brain gets tricked by this kind of optical illusion, and it gives cl...

Scientists build the world's first 6G antenna that, when fitted into devices, can transmit data at high speeds...

A new map of a brain network that sustains wakefulness in humans could help improve our understanding of consc...

A new imaging technique, which captured frozen lithium atoms transforming into quantum waves, could be used to...

Prehistoric cold viruses are hard to find in the historical record, but scientists have unearthed some evidenc...

Chinese astronomers have shared the most detailed geological map of the moon ever created, revealing more than...

Scientists in Japan have transferred data at 100 gigabits per second in high-frequency wavelength bands over a...

Scientists have yet to reach the bottom of the Taam Ja' Blue Hole in Mexico's Chetumal Bay, which new measurem...

Artificial intelligence trained by asteroid-hunting citizen scientists helped identify more than 1,000 never-b...

Auditory pareidolia is a phenomenon in which people can hear familiar sounds from seemingly static background...