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R aising offspring is expensive. It costs you time, it costs you money, and for some species: it costs you your life. This is ...

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This result really changes the way I think about long term memory storage,” senior author Dr Daniel Dombeck told IFLScience.

In actuality, the peak mechanical power output of a horse is well over 12 horsepower. That figure comes from a duo of scientists who published a paper in the journal Nature way back in 1993, based on ...

O n April 29, 2017 a thin, dehydrated, and distressed orangutan was rescued after being captured and caged within Indonesian Borneo. While this is unfortunately not an unusual occurrence, the ...

We bring you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this iconic mission with Dr Linda Spilker, from her first job out of ...

In August 1993, seven hikers climbed the popular tourist destination, Khamar-Daban mountain. Only one witness would survive.

It all boils down to the apparent brightness of an object, or in astronomical parlance, its apparent magnitude. There are ...

For any Gen Zers in the audience, a filing cabinet is an archaic piece of office furniture that was used by your ancestors in ...

"This raises a disturbing prospect—a Kardashev Type III metasociety may annihilate planetary systems as it expands to stabilize their megaswarms, leaving everything within its 'bubble' barren of ...

The research, supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, shows that even an experiment with a clear mission in ...