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A bar-tailed godwit just flew for 11 days straight from Alaska to New Zealand.

A study of four drugs to combat chronic neuropathic pain finds Nortriptyline has the highest efficacious percentage and lowest quit rate.

A biologist tracking a 4-metre-long python in Australia warned local residents to be on their guard - but one woman woke to find the snake trying to eat her

If you've seen the movie The Martian, you no doubt remember the rescue scene, in which (spoiler alert!) Matt Damon launches himself off Mars in a stripped-down rocket in hopes of his carefully-calculated trajectory takin...

A study of women born in the Netherlands between 1812 and 1874 adds to the evidence that the daughters of older mothers may be slightly less fertile

In 1999, the Egyptian chemist Ahmed Zewail received the Nobel Prize for measuring the speed at which molecules change their shape. He founded femtochemistry using ultrashort laser flashes: the formation and breakup of ch...

In his quest to bring ever-faster cameras to the world, Caltech's Lihong Wang has developed technology that can reach blistering speeds of 70 trillion frames per second, fast enough to see light travel. Just like the cam...

It's widely known that thick, viscous liquids--like honey--flow more slowly than low-viscosity liquids, like water. Researchers were surprised to find this behavior flipped on its head when the liquids flow through chemi...

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Researchers from Trinity have discovered a uniquely quantum effect in erasing information that may have significant implications for the design of quantum computing chips. Their surprising discovery brings back to life t...

Theoretical physicists Kamran Ullah and Hameed Ullah have shown that a position-dependent mass optomechanical system involving a cavity between two mirrors, one attached to a resonator, can enhance induced transparency a...

Pus caterpillars have among the most venomous stings of any animal in the United States. And they're having a boom year in Virginia.

The digital data generated around the world every year is now counted in zettabytes, or trillions of billions of bytes--equivalent to delivering data for hundreds of millions of books every second. The amount of data gen...

Thin tissue grafts and flexible electronics have a host of applications for wound healing, regenerative medicine and biosensing. A new device inspired by an octopus's sucker rapidly transfers delicate tissue or electroni...

Recovery from multiple sclerosis-like symptoms in mice depends upon the ability for microglia to break down the remains of damaged cells.

Patients given the drug did not show a significant decrease in mortality, risk of ventilation or time in the hospital.

The eventual creation of replacement biological parts requires fully three-dimensional capabilities that two-dimensional and three-dimensional thin-film bioprinting cannot supply. Now, using a yield stress gel, Penn Stat...

A nearly mile-long set of tracks across the playa of the desert Southwest reveals the journey of a caregiver and a toddler more than 10,000 years ago.

Sadly, this success story only stretches as far as the southern subspecies of the white rhino.

Early childhood trauma has an impact on glucose metabolism and blood composition, which are passed on to the next generation.

Neutron stars are like the most efficient thermoses in the universe, filled with hot noodle soup. Here's how, over the course of millions of years, they cool down.

For older adults, some sedentariness may not be as bad for memory as believed, especially if physical activity benchmarks are being met.