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The rare footage was taken when filming the red crab migration on Christmas Island.

Scientists have found a white dwarf that is cooling and crystallizing into a giant diamond.

A veteran Greek diver announced that he'd discovered the wreck of HMS Triumph after searching for more than 20 years.

Understanding the mechanisms of interaction between plasma and microparticles is of a critical importance in various fields, including astrophysics, microelectronics, and plasma medicine. A common experimental approach f...

Researchers identified the structure of the nucleus, the first step in amyloid formation associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Huntington's. The study suggests a radical method to treat these diseases--halting ...

For only the second time, astronomers have discovered multiple "Tatooine worlds," or circumbinary planets, in the same star system.

Emoji could revolutionize health care communication. These universally appealing and accessible symbols can bypass barriers of language, education, and age, offering an intuitive language system for patient-provider inte...

Archaeologists in Spain unearthed the sword-sharpening stone with an eye-catching shape in a destroyed 15th-century tower.

Quantum oscillations (QOs) of conductance in the magnetic field are widely observed in mesoscopic devices thanks to the Landau quantization, and thus QOs are commonly used as a powerful tool to measure the Fermi surface ...

NASA's Aqua satellite spotted giant ice swirls stretching for hundreds of miles in the Sea of Okhotsk off Russia's P'yagina Peninsula.

A research team led by associate Prof. Yin Lihua from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has demonstrated a clear control of magnetism at low electric fields (E) at room temperatu...

ChatGPT outperformed human candidates in a mock Obstetrics and Gynecology (O&G) specialist examination, excelling in areas such as empathetic communication, information gathering, and clinical reasoning. It scored an ave...

Human skull and shinbone fragments found in a cave in northern Laos suggest modern humans may have been in South-East Asia between 68,000 and 86,000 years ago, considerably further back than the previous estimates of aro...

A few months ago, the James Webb Space Telescope spotted six early galaxies that were so large they threatened to break our best theory of how the cosmos evolved. Did they?

Researchers developed a video library showcasing a range of emotional expressions through full-body dance movements. The library contains 150 clips, each portraying a professional dancer emoting joy, anger, fear, sadness...

Positive parenting, as reported by children and teenagers, can safeguard young individuals from the damaging effects of stressors like financial hardship or serious illness. The research team used MRI data and survey res...

Research shows humans might inhale about 16.2 bits of microplastic every hour, which is equivalent to a credit card over an entire week. And these microplastics--tiny debris in the environment generated from the degradat...

The discovery of a skull and shin bone fragment in a cave in Laos pushes back the earliest known date of Homo sapiens in Southeast Asia.

A new study has investigated how the laxative prucalopride, known to activate serotonin receptors, affects resting brain activity in healthy adults. The study discovered that those who took prucalopride demonstrated incr...

Black rhinos are commonly dehorned to prevent poaching, but monitoring data suggests the practice may have an impact on their social interactions

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Bullet and greenhead ants produce toxins they inject with every sting, which prolong nerve signals to the brain and lead to trembling, uncontrollable and long-lasting pain in mammals.