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Just what every arachnophobe needed to hear.
A study looks at the performance benefits delivered by asthma drugs when they're taken by athletes who don't have asthma.
Certain water beetles can escape from frogs after being consumed.
Research is for the experts. Listen to them instead. “Research both sides and make up your own mind.” It’s simple, straightforward, common sense advice. And when it comes to issues like […]
Several experts have weighed in on our sometimes morbid curiosity and fascination with true crime.
The multifaceted cerebellum is large — it's just tightly folded.
What happens if we consider welfare programs as investments?
There are exposed planetary cores orbiting stars, and we may have already found them. When we take a look at the planets in our Solar System, there’s a pretty clear difference […]
The meteorites suggest astronomers may have small, early planets wrong.
A recent analysis of a 76-million-year-old Centrosaurus apertus fibula confirmed that dinosaurs suffered from cancer, too.
Study finds quantum entanglement could, in principle, give a slight advantage in the game of blackjack.
It doesn’t have to be a science-fiction dream. For as long as human beings have been watching the night sky, we’ve dreamed of visiting other worlds and truly seeing what’s […]
You may be surprised at how your body and brain react to this type of pleasure.
A man's skeleton, found facedown with his hands bound, was unearthed near an ancient ceremonial circle during a high speed rail excavation project.
The space tourism company Virgin Galactic teams up with Rolls Royce to create a new Mach 3 supersonic aircraft.
Andy Samberg and Cristin Milioti get stuck in an infinite wedding time loop.
Most of Stonehenge's megaliths, called sarens, came from West Woods, Wiltshire.
A recent study tested how well the fungi species Cladosporium sphaerospermum blocked cosmic radiation aboard the International Space Station.