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Katie has a PhD in maths, specializing in the intersection of dynamical systems and number theory. She reports on topics from maths and history to society and animals. Katie has a PhD in maths, ...

Sorry ophidiophobes, but the capacity of snakes to get upright without limbs is a wonder of nature we have struggled to understand.

"The tissue retained core features of function after rewarming," first author Dr Alexander German told IFLScience.

A new interpretation of a 3,500-year-old medical text from Egypt suggests that ancient physicians might have bathed patients’ eyeballs in human breast milk to treat certain ophthalmic conditions. And ...

"What's really exciting is that this is definitive evidence for a magnetar forming as the result of a superluminous supernova core collapse," explained Alex Filippenko, a UC Berkeley distinguished ...

Rakiura and her chick are downright adorable and are slowly bringing New Zealand's kākāpō back from the brink.

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This observation – that animal lineages evolve toward larger body sizes – is known as Cope's rule. It’s most prominently seen ...

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Alfredo has a PhD in Astrophysics and a Master's in Quantum Fields and Fundamental Forces from Imperial College London. Katy has a BA in Humanities and Philosophy, with over 20 years of experience in ...