The Hammerschmiede clay pit near Pforzen in the eastern Allgäu is famous for its wealth of finds: Besides fossils of two ...

To monitor the amount and type of nuclear material at power plants and weapons facilities, scientists look for a special ...

To be or not to be a gentle parent? That is the question. There is so much controversy these days about gentle parenting.

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A quarter-century after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, religious bias in America has not disappeared, but the forces ...

Scientists led by the Universitat Politècnica de Barcelona and the ESRF, the European Synchrotron, have revealed the chemical ...

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Dozens of glacial lakes have formed across northern India in the last three decades, while existing lakes have expanded ...

Learning is often thought to require a brain. But learning is a broad concept that does not necessarily depend on neurons.

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Imagine this. You pick up a contact lens from its container and—yikes!—it falls on the bathroom floor. Before you know it, ...