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Butterfly iridescence is really, really old.
Standing out from the opposite sex comes at a cost -- and this could make all the difference in the world.
A little ice age and modern global warming have had a say in this.
The results astonishingly suggest that Alzheimer's effects on the brain could be reversed.
The new gripper can grasp almost anything from pipes to porous rocks. Its primary application might be space.
A new step forward that might make graphene mainstream.
This is a serious condition that has sent many to the ER multiple times.
The fossil found on a UK beach used to belong to an ancient behemoth.
A tiny fingerbone is re-writing the story of human dispersal out of Africa.
The results are encouraging given an aging population around the world.
Scientists are left in the dark again.
All the better to breathe with.
The novel camera help researchers devise a novel underwater GPS method.
Taxing plastic bags or coffee cups works -- and the rest of the world should follow suit.
The odds of finding alien life are getting slimmer by the day.
Hydrogen and anti-hydrogen are unremarkably the same.
The findings might help piece together the evolution of the universe.
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Bats provide more than $22 billion of indirect value to farmers by controlling pests. When bats fall, so does our food.
German researchers reprogramed brain cells to investigate how place memories are formed.
This explains why some people fail exams despite having studied for it.
The extra eyes are called the pineal and parapineal organs.
This was equally awesome and disturbing to watch.
Making new friends take time. A new study quantified how long it takes, on average, for an acquaintance to climb our social circle.
Inspired by the pitcher plant and rice leaves, researchers have devised a new method that harvests water straight from the air.
The findings are important for food safety, but also materials science.
A drug developed in the 1980s to fight parasites can make human blood toxic to mosquitoes when taken in a high dose.
Marijuana does not reduce the size of gray matter or white matter, unlike alcohol.
The world's largest warm desert grew by 10% since 1920.
This is an easy to use calculator that takes into account all the physical parameters that impact a boiling egg.
The findings suggest that therapy should focus on making people less conscious of perceived mistakes.
Finally, a detailed presentation of what's perhaps the most audacious plan of the century.
But this could spell trouble for some satellites.
Not your typical stellar explosion.
Graduate students are six times likelier to be depressed than the general population.
The tiny sensor provides objective information about a user's diet.
It's not a cure -- but this oral treatment makes people less susceptible to life-threatening allergic reactions.
Cheeky new details concerning the interbreeding between Neanderthals and our own species.
It sounds extreme, but it worked -- with no side effects.
A major breakthrough in physics.
"You are what you eat."
Aquatic bots like SoFi will enable scientists to learn more about some of the most elusive underwater creatures.
This isn't a war helmet -- it's a revolutionary brain scanner!
Kagome is a popular style element in Japanese basket-making characterized by a symmetrical pattern of interlaced triangles.
Meet a shimmering purple ribbon of plasma called Steve.
Another discovery that cements black holes' fundamental role in the evolution of the universe.
This is essentially a new life form with both modern and 'primordial' traits.
This knowledge could be used to improve social interactions in patients with mental disorders.
Marijuana smoke is still smoke -- and it might clog arteries just as bad as tobacco.
It will have time to find just a couple more candidate exoplanets.
