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Race and ethnicity are terms that are sometimes used sloppily, almost interchangeably. But race and ethnicity are not the same thing.

The first X-ray footage of a toad gulping down a meal reveals that its tongue recoils into its body further than it stretches out to grab prey

A 5-month-old bar-tailed godwit recently flew non-stop for 265 hours as it migrated more than 8,000 miles from Alaska to Tasmania.

The US has seen a huge surge in cases of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, mostly in young children. Two companies aim to make vaccines for children and elderly people available next year

Dissociation often occurs following trauma, and affects more women than men. A new study found different dissociative symptoms are uniquely associated with connections in areas of brain networks linked to cognition and e...

Another 24 unmarked graves -- possibly victims of a race massacre in 1921 in Tulsa, Oklahoma -- have been discovered in a cemetery in the city.

Inside All About History 123: Learn how Eleanor of Aquitaine dodged assassination and kidnapping to become Queen of England.

Cell organelles are involved in a variety of cellular life activities. Their dysfunction is closely related to the development and metastasis of cancer. Exploration of subcellular structures and their abnormal states fac...

Asteroids of this size are big enough to cause mass extinction events.

X-ray observations show that a distant magnetar may have a surface made of a strange material somewhere between a solid and a fluid instead of a gaseous one like most stars

The plume ejected by the Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha apai volcano in January entered the mesosphere, the layer of atmosphere above the stratosphere, twice during the eruption

For the first time, an international team of scientists have found evidence of high-energy neutrino emission from NGC 1068, also known as Messier 77, an active galaxy in the constellation Cetus and one of the most famili...

The spiral galaxy NGC 1068, also known as the squid galaxy, is a bustling 'Disneyland' of neutrino production, researchers said.

Single crystals are materials in which the crystal lattice is continuous and unbroken to the edges of the sample, with no grain boundaries. The atoms occupy regular positions, which are repeated indefinitely in space. Wh...

The knot theory originates in Lord Kevin's model proposed in 1867 that atoms are made of vortex rings or knots. Although the hypothesis was proved incorrect, the knot theory has since then proliferated in both mathematic...

All chemical elements were formed in the process of evolution of the universe dominated by light atomic nuclei. The properties of these nuclei are therefore of crucial importance not only in astrophysics, but also in rel...

Scientists working on laser application at the RIKEN Center for Advanced Photonics (RAP) have developed a new technique using GHz bursts of femtosecond laser pulses grouped in MHz envelopes, termed BiBurst mode, for high...

The U.S. government has officially started to explain some of the most infamous UFO encounters of the last decade, with China and weather balloons as top offenders.

A dietitian addresses the question: "can you get a faster metabolism?" And if so, what foods can help?

The accelerometers in our smartphones collect information as we travel over bridges, and this can reveal if the structure is weakening and help us know when to fix it to extend its life

Birds have sex via an internal chamber called a cloaca that is present on both male and female animals.

An adult southern right whale was recently spotted swimming alongside a humpback whale calf. Experts think the larger whale may have adopted the juvenile after it lost its real mother.