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Nature must think willies are funny, too.

Ancient Egypt had far more venomous snakes than the country does today, according to a new study of a scroll.

Researchers found that middle-aged women on the DASH diet, aimed at lowering blood pressure, were 17% less likely to experience cognitive decline in their later years. This discovery has significant ramifications as wome...

New research unveiled that when faced with a choice, 40% of individuals opt to remain ignorant about how their decisions impact others, often leveraging this unawareness to act more selfishly. The researchers equates thi...

Researchers find a connection between consistently sleeping less than five hours nightly and an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms. Initially believed that poor sleep was a mere side effect of mental illnes...

As I'm typing these words, I don't think about the synchronized muscle contractions that allow my fingers to dance across the keyboard. Or the back muscles that unconsciously tighten to hold myself upright while sitting ...

Research reveals that a father's depression during a child's first year can lead to increased odds of the child experiencing multiple adverse events by age 5. Adverse childhood experiences have lasting impacts, including...

A few years ago, researchers discovered that a rapidly rotating magnet will cause other nearby magnets to levitate, and they have now worked out why

The eagerly awaited finding comes from the first randomised trial of putting HEPA filter machines into classrooms

Coming down with a cold or the flu can muffle your hearing, but why?

Aurora records in royal chronicles from Korea show that during the 'Maunder Minimum' between 1645 and 1715, the sun's solar cycles became several years shorter than they are today.

The gold and platinum that came from giant space rocks should have sunk into Earth's core instead of rising to the crust. Scientists have now worked out how this happened -- and it may explain some really weird blobs dee...

Ultraviolet (UV) rays are electromagnetic waves with wavelengths ranging from 100 to 380 nanometers (nm). These wavelengths can be classified into three regions: UV-A (315-380 nm), UV-B (280-315 nm), and UV-C (100-280 nm...

Scientists have performed a necropsy on a great white shark that washed up in Nova Scotia -- the fifth unexplained stranding of its kind in a year -- but were unable to determine the cause of death.

Some biological cells swim freely in a way that apparently breaks one of Newton's laws of motion - but only if they have strange elastic properties

Isambard-AI will contain about 5000 graphics processing units, making it 10 times as powerful as the UK's current fastest computer, but it will have a humble home in a Bristol car park

Whenever light interacts with matter, light appears to slow down. This is not a new observation and standard wave mechanics can describe most of these daily phenomena.

The exoplanet WASP-17b's atmosphere is full of quartz clouds, according to a new James Webb Space Telescope observations.

Scientists have identified the brain mechanisms behind why we often misremember small details, such as an object's colour or location

Researchers are conserving a rare snakehead from the Aztecs that still retains its painted colors from hundreds of years ago.

The CDC will soon recommend that some people take a "morning-after" antibiotic to lower their risk of STIs. But someday, it's possible that bacteria-killing viruses could do this without driving antibiotic resistance.

Bulk acoustic resonators--stacked material structures inside which acoustic waves resonate--can be used to amplify sounds or filter out undesired noise. These resonators have found wide use in today's RF telecommunicatio...