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Mona Lisa's smile is often described as enigmatic, but could the mysterious allure of this iconic painting actually be due to an underlying illness in "Lisa" herself?

Light and dark markings swirl over the moon, looking like cream swirled into coffee or clouds against a slate gray sky. These lunar swirls may result from ancient, magnetic lava just below the moon's surface, according t...

What happens when evolution shapes an animal for tribes of 150 primitive individuals living in a chaotic jungle, and then suddenly that animal finds itself living with millions of others in an engineered metropolis, thei...