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Monkeys use some of the same basic mental strategies as people do to perceive abstract relationships between shapes, a new study suggests.The findings challenge the idea…
Chinese researchers have revealed a new technology that could soon enable drones to charge mid-flight using high-powered lasers.The scientists built a prototype of the system using…
The patient: An 8-year-old girl in the U.S.The symptoms: The girl arrived at an emergency department after waking up with sudden, severe pain in her upper…
“Expedition X: Atomic Sharks” – a “Shark Week” 2026 special – sees biologist Phil Torres and “Expedition X” host Heather Amaro explore the islands’ waters, including…
“Demon cavefish” have been discovered lurking in caverns beneath a contaminated U.S. Army base in Alabama, a new study has found.Biologists have named the pale, eyeless…
The total solar eclipse on Aug. 12, 2026, will attract millions of viewers across northern Spain, western Iceland and eastern Greenland, while a deep partial eclipse…
July’s full Buck Moon, the second full moon of summer in the Northern Hemisphere, will turn full on Wednesday (July 29). It will be the final…
Gun violence is a uniquely American epidemic, according to Dr. Selwyn Rogers Jr., the founding director of the University of Chicago Medicine Trauma Center.Rogers helped found…
Science word of the day: AllelePronunciation: Ah-LEEL’What it means: Genes contain the instructions for the various proteins that determine traits, such as eye color or blood…
A powerful earthquake struck southwestern Japan Tuesday afternoon local time, collapsing part of a shopping mall, toppling a stone wall at the centuries-old Kumamoto Castle, and…
