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If you’ve ever been jolted awake by your cat letting out a long, mournful cry in the middle of the night, your sleep-deprived brain may wonder…

BERLIN — Archaeologists have finally determined which weapon caused mysterious square holes in the skulls of soldiers who died in the 1361 Battle of Visby. Close…

People with a rare disorder that causes excessive burping may benefit from an unlikely treatment: singing therapy.A new study suggests that this singing approach could offer…

BERLIN — A Roman-era mass grave discovered underneath a soccer field near Vienna holds the skeletons of young men from all over the Roman Empire. And…

Brazil is home to some of the world’s largest aquifers, yet many of those groundwater stores — which provide 55% of the country’s water — have…

Losing mature trees from a neighborhood may be a matter of life and death, a new study suggests.The research, published Aug. 5 in the journal GeoHealth,…

Long-term memories may not “stick” in the brain for the reasons we thought, a study of mice in artificial hibernation reveals.Instead of relying on many individual,…

A dog-sized carnivore and mammal ancestor that lived around 236 million years ago seems to have given birth to live young, a new study suggests. This…

BERLIN — Nearly four dozen skeletons recovered from a deep well in the Croatian city of Osijek may be the remains of people who perished during…

Scientists have engineered a new artificial intelligence (AI) system that cuts reaction delays in robots by over 10 times without using additional computing power.Many robots controlled…