In most of the 24 encounters – 68 percent – the orcas simply avoided meeting the pilot whales by moving away before the ...

For the first 280 million years of animal life on Earth, slow-living creatures such as clam-like brachiopods and crinoid sea ...

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The aging human brain is fascinating, because in some ways, it improves with age – but we generally hear more about how it ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is one of humanity's greatest gifts to itself, revealing our cosmic surrounds like never before.

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It might not be something you think about all that often, but at any given moment, your body is busily digesting all the food ...

Quantum mechanics is so odd that even the visionary genius who described the secrets of the Universe seemed to dismiss ...

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However, even decades ago, Hamilton had begun to develop an uncomfortable inkling that the point was a poor representation of ...

With LIDAR uncovering the histories of many ancient societies in the Amazon, Pärssinen said the traditional view of the ...

Their typical population sizes helped the team estimate how many ethnolinguistic groups might have existed around 12,000 ...