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Testing the behavioral reaction to MDMA in octopuses, researchers report they have discovered evidence of an evolutionary link between the sea creatures and humans.

SuperCDMS physicists are testing a way to amp up dark matter vibrations to help them search for lighter particles. A dark matter experiment scheduled to go online at the Canadian underground laboratory SNOLAB in the earl...

The weird 'Ediacaran' fossils have stumped scientists for decades - now fat molecules found inside some of them confirm they are the most ancient animals we know

When you think of fruit flies, many words likely come to mind: buzzing, hovering, annoying...but navigating probably isn't one of them. As it turns out, these tiny insects are known to travel up to nine miles per evening...

The CIA estimates over $80 trillion of global value is stored in cash, banknotes, money markets, and bank accounts. As of 2017, a mere $5 trillion of this was in the form of cold, hard cash. In this two-part series, we'l...

The future of humanity will be radically different than what we see today. As Ray Kurzweil put it, "We won't experience 100 years of progress in the 21st century-- it will be more like 20,000 years of progress (at today'...

Humans but not animals learn that symbols like '2' and '4' represent numbers by recruiting a unique set of neurons to identify them

Octopuses respond to ecstasy in the same way as we do, suggesting the basis for social behaviour evolved more than 500 million years ago

Big whales washing ashore create logistical challenges, as the city of Rye, New Hampshire, found out the hard way.

Snot houses of the abyss THE deep sea is full of fantastical creatures. Gelatinous pink sea pigs shovel food with arms like tiny sea anemones. Delicate tripod fish stand on chopstick-like stilts. Barreleye fish have tran...

FOR decades, doctors and governments have been trying to wean smokers from their habit. It is a tricky task. Nicotine is as addictive as heroin and cocaine. There are plenty of officially endorsed methods for quitting. P...

I'm getting too old for this CELLS divide many times throughout their lives. But they cannot do it indefinitely. Once they have reached the limits of their reproductive powers, they enter a state called "senescence", in ...

AS MISMATCHES go, it's a big one. When physicists bring the Standard Model of particle physics and Einstein's general theory of relativity together they get a clear prediction. In the very early universe, equal amounts o...

Scientists observed the first-ever evidence of praying mantises hunting fish.

A 'naked,' wormlike creature that lived in the ocean 520 million years ago was so defenseless, it likely lived as a recluse, evading hungry predators by hiding in dark crevices or among clusters of sponges, a new study f...

The photoelectric effect provides the basis for solar energy and global communications; Albert Einstein described it over a century ago. For the first time, scientists from the Technical University of Munich (TUM), the M...

NASA's recently launched exoplanet-hunting satellite has uncovered a new world twice the size of Earth orbiting a star 60 light years away

NASA's recently launched exoplanet-hunting satellite has uncovered a new world twice the size of Earth orbiting a star 60 light years away

Physicists at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) have proven that incoming light causes the electrons in warm perovskites to rotate, thus influencing the direction of the flow of electrical current...

A FLEET study of ultracold atomic gases--a billionth the temperature of outer space--has unlocked new, fundamental quantum effects. The researchers at Swinburne University of Technology studied collective oscillations in...

Japan's Hayabusa 2 spacecraft has arrived at the asteroid Ryugu, and now it is dropping off two tiny landers that will hop around the surface and take pictures

But researchers have also revealed a paradox: Women prefer men who behave in ways that could be described as benevolently sexist over those who don't.