Ever since its formation around 4.5 billion years ago, Earth's rotation has been gradually slowing down, and its days have ...

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The system seems versatile enough to detect basically any molecule, chemical or bacteria, good or bad. By adding two ...

Dogs are sociable, enthusiastic and widely used to comfort people in settings like hospitals, schools and care homes.

A re-examination of the distribution of powerful space explosions suggests that the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall, a ...

The idea of growing teeth in a lab has vague horror movie connotations, but it could serve a real, practical, non-scary ...

Trending weight loss drugs such as Ozempic and Wegovy may be highly effective at tackling obesity, but are they also carrying ...

A single-celled microbe that revels in Earth's most hostile salt lakes has the remarkable ability to transform its mote of a ...

A bad day and a dead end for a Cretaceous ant has parlayed into some pretty spectacular science some 113 million years later.

Have you ever wondered why you don't have thick hair covering your whole body like a dog, cat or gorilla does? Humans aren't ...

While dementia is much more common in older adults, hundreds of thousands of people are diagnosed with young-onset dementia ...