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More than 65% of the energy we use is wasted as heat.
The effect of sexual selection on females has been largely ignored in favor of the more pronounced and obvious effect on males.
The impact on their health is unclear but it can’t be too good.
The transition towards longer days may have allowed cyanobacteria enough breathing room to produce enough oxygen to dramatically and forever alter Earth’s atmosphere.
Four new sports are making their debut at the Tokyo Olympic Games, while baseball and softball are making a comeback.
New evidence that hearing impairment significantly contributes to the risk of dementia.
They're like the raccoons of the bird kingdom.
The revolving disk holds enough matter to seed three moons the size of Earth's.
Chimps formed coalitions and attacked gorilla families close to their territory, killing two gorilla infants in the process.
This complex structure may explain how sharks can go weeks without a meal.
Some of the most iconic images of Earth from space have been brought to new light.
Scientists in India have made a new class of crystalline material with self-healing properties.
The new material is one millionth the thickness of a single sheet of paper.
Wild pig populations have bred out of control. We're now suffering the environmental consequences.
“Best day ever,” Bezos said after landing.
More evidence that exposure to nature supports mental and emotional development.
Big or small, all black holes may be the same.
Earth's color palette in a series of creative maps.
The new climate normal is frightening.
Brain waves that normally control the patient's vocal tract have been converted into entire sentences on a computer screen.
The maze-like underground city resembles an ant colony.
Did we get the Easter Island collapse all wrong?
The research could help scientists understand how different sexes evolved in the first place.
The moon wobbles in roughly 18-year cycles like a rocking ship as it orbits Earth. Next cycle could exacerbate rising sea levels due to climate change, which may lead to 3-4 times more days with floods in US coastlines.
Our cities need to set more ambitious climate targets otherwise they may become urban ovens.
Those who had a flu shot were 20% less likely to end up in the ICU compared to patients who didn't get the jab.
Dogs and humans have formed a special bond after more than 14,000 years of co-evolving together.
The cauliflower really wants to grow flowers but just ends up with more buds growing out of its buds that grew out of other buds…
The combination produces exciting physical phenomena that could be used in electronics and quantum technology.
Archaeologists believe solar ships were used by the pharaoh for pilgrimages or funeral rituals.
Drugs excreted by users end up in wastewater and can affect aquatic wildlife in unpredictable ways.
Using a cosmological technique typically used to study galaxies, archaeologists uncovered a vast funerary landscape in eastern Sudan composed of thousands of tombs resembling the stars of a galaxy. Sudan’s Kassala region, which borders neighboring Eritrea, has been occupied by the semi-nomadic Beja people for over two thousand years. Local archaeologists had previously discovered numerous […]
The tool has both upsides and downsides. What would you do if you knew a person close to you has less than 6 months to live?
Exposure to volatile compounds from cleaning products may partly explain the rise of allergic disease rather than the lack of microbes.
This quantum processor completed a complex task in a little over an hour -- about 60,000 times faster than a classical supercomputer.
If you haven't updated your router in years you're not alone -- and that's not good.
The newly documented genealogy could help scientists identify Leonardo's long-lost DNA.
More and more evidence suggests that Neanderthals were just as feeling and thinking creatures as humans.
Some scientists believe we've found our long-lost sister lineage. But not everyone is entirely convinced.
Spirituality may be “deeply woven into our neuro-fabric,” researchers claim.
Animals have been feigning death as a defence mechanism for eons. Humans took it to the next level.
In turns from a supercar into an two-seat airplane in under three minutes.
The wild boars have no predators and have interbred with domestic pigs left behind by humans.
They really are man’s best friend.
Although Ayahuasca is classified as a Schedule I drug, recent research suggests it has medical value.
One of the finest bits of mathematical trolling by the great Pythagoras himself.
An e-bike is sold every three minutes in the United Kingdom.
Only 12 astronaut boots touched down on the lunar surface. But more are about to arrive soon (and they likely won’t be American).
You could fit nearly one million Earth-sized planets and the sun isn't even that big of a star.
