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Basic facts about the unknown material called dark matter.

The risk of ASD may increase slightly for every week a child is born before or after 40 weeks gestation.

The main function of sleep may change as our brains do.

Archaeologists have identified the wreck of a Mexican steamer as La Union, an illegal slave ship that smuggled the Maya as cargo to Cuba.

Study links diabetic ketoacidosis to lower IQ scores and worse memory in children with type 1 diabetes.

Wave scattering appears practically everywhere in everyday life--from conversations across rooms, to ocean waves breaking on a shore, from colorful sunsets, to radar waves reflecting from aircraft. Scattering phenomena a...

Quantum mechanics does not only describe how the world works on its smallest scales, but also affects the motion of macroscopic objects. An international research team, including four scientists from the MPI for Gravitat...

Researchers have identified a novel neural circuit that detects male pheromone cues pertaining to inter-male aggression.

A roundup of the various pushback and criticisms to the claim that there could be life on Venus

Carnegie Mellon University's Maysam Chamanzar and his team have invented an optical platform that will likely become the new standard in optical biointerfaces. He's labeled this new field of optical technology "Parylene ...

With almost 100,000 new daily coronavirus cases, India is fast overtaking the US and the true number is likely to be much higher

Scientists with names that are not of British origin are less likely to feature in a US news story about their research, according to an analysis of 230,000 news articles

Parkinson's disease can be divided into two variants that start in different places in the body. For some, the neurodegenerative disease starts in the intestines and spreads to the brain. In others, the disease begins in...

Roads are flooded again. Protective dunes destroyed. Louisiana is bracing for another impact. And the season still has much more than a month left to go.

Handedness--and the related concept of chirality--are double-sided ways of understanding how matter breaks symmetries. Our right and left hands are reflections of one another, but they are not equal. To hide one hand per...

Male fork-tailed flycatchers have a notch in their wings that makes a high-pitched sound as they fly, and birds from different areas produce different pitches - a bit like a regional dialect

After two dead giraffes were discovered in a South African nature reserve, scientists determined that the animals had been struck by lightning.

Artificially intelligent cameras are able to tell the physical properties of surfaces, such as texture or how well it conducts heat, based on a single image - but they can't tell whether something is sticky

It took eight months to reach 200,000 deaths.

Toxic cyanobacteria may have killed 350 elephants in Botswana, government says

Perseverance is the first NASA mission to explicitly look for signs of ancient life. It will also test the first extraterrestrial helicopter and prepare for human exploration.

Producing biogas from the bacterial breakdown of biomass presents options for a greener energy future, but the complex composition of biomass comes with a long list of challenges.