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The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen ...

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't ...

Alzheimer's disease affects the brain in tragic and seemingly irreversible ways, but a new study gives hope that its ...

Dogs have been 'man's best friend' for thousands of years, which is a long time to get to know each other. But a new study ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, ...

Mini-brains' grown in the lab allow scientists to study brain wiring without interfering with brains in living people, and ...

As a young star develops, so too does a protoplanetary disk of dust and gas around it, ready to birth new planets.

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But there's little evidence that listening to the whole song will get rid of an earworm. Research suggests that listening to ...

Emerging evidence suggests that centenarians, who live to 100, and supercentenarians, who live to 110, have unique blood ...

In a bushfire or campfire, it is the glowing soot that we experience as flames. Flames actually extend well above where we ...