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People are getting dumber. So concludes a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS): Using military... Read More
Biochemists have tracked down the brain chemicals that make so-called killer bees such ferocious fighters. The compounds, which seem to be... Read More
Back in the 1990s, a team of researchers spent two and a half years visiting the homes of close to four dozen families with young children,... Read More
In 2004, NASA launched two exploration vehicles to the red planet: the Spirit and Opportunity rovers. These two Mars Exploration Rovers were... Read More
Currently, the heaviest element on the periodic table is oganesson, which has an atomic mass of 294 and was officially named in 2016. Like... Read More
For some time, I'd been searching for Christopher Filardi, a biologist with decades of field experience in the Solomon Islands. I wanted to... Read More
Work has begun on a major upgrade to CERN's Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that will see the luminosity increase by a factor of 10. The High... Read More
Researchers at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) have taken another step toward their long-overdue goal of using lasers to attain a... Read More
Science and technology often seem to be cogs in a relentless wheel of progress: Someone discovers something, a contraption incorporates the... Read More
High-profile cases of scientific misconduct at forensics labs are upending the legal system and casting doubt on the wider field, Rebecca... Read More
My high school biology teacher, Mr. Whittington, put a framed picture of a primate ancestor in the front of his classroom—a place of... Read More
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has terminated a controversial US$100 million study examining whether drinking small amounts of... Read More
Human activity is causing the planet's mammals to flee daylight for the protection of night, according to a new study from UC Berkeley.The... Read More
Many large galaxies have a bright central region called an active galactic nucleus (AGN), powered by matter spiraling into a supermassive... Read More
The discovery changes our understanding of the basic mechanism of photosynthesis and should rewrite the textbooks.It will also tailor the way... Read More
As the demand for smartphones, electric vehicles, and renewable energy continues to rise, scientists are searching for ways to improve... Read More
Enamel, located on the outer part of our teeth, is the hardest tissue in the body and enables our teeth to function for a large part of our... Read More
If you're up there in age and feel like you can coast as a couch potato, you may want to reconsider. A new study suggests, for the first time... Read More
Can probiotics fend off mood disorders?It's too early to say with scientific certainty, but a new study by University of Colorado Boulder... Read More
The most commonly consumed vitamin and mineral supplements provide no consistent health benefit or harm, suggests a new study led by... Read More
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