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Parents who pressure children to have good grades or over achieve risk psychologically scarring their offspring.
Though they're separated by 25 million years of evolution, monkeys and humans share at least one common fact of life: both choose to have a less engaged social life at old age.
Insects are among the best disguise artists in the world, and new findings suggest they always have been.
The academic publishing industry is undergoing radical change.
The island rule is not a myth, but an evolutionary reality.
Imagine what it would be like if cancer was contagious. Well, it is in some species.
Scientists found a strange correlation between hot women and condom usage
Most of the world's greenhouse gas comes from cities - and that's where we have to act.
It took a year and 30 students to make the fastest accelerating vehicle in the world: the grimsel.
Visitors to the Alice Springs Reptile Centre, home to the largest reptile display in Central Australia, were stunned by the sight of a snake who spun in circles countless times in a ring made from its own skin.
Not only does it look gorgeous, but it also has many remarkable properties that could transform the way artists work.
Can a woman without a lab coat still be a scientist?
In America, walkable neighborhoods are a privilege of the rich and educated.
Even days after we die, gene expression is still active.
India's space agency is taking huge strides forward.
Tesla Motors wants to buy SolarCity for $2.8 billion in stock-to-stock.
The short-term plan involves bringing the Hyperloop to Moscow and its 16 million citizens, but the long-term plan is even more ambitious...
It's amazing to see how the bears can sense human patterns and use us. It's actually refreshing for a change.
The secret lies in an ultra-sticky saliva that's 400 times more adhesive than human spit, a new study reveals.
A controversial study that's sure to anger a lot of doctors found many physicians can be influenced to prescribe brand-name medication following free meals offered by the pharmaceutical companies.
This billion-dollar industry is based on highly glamorized studies which can only be classed as poor science.
There may be a fine line between how baby birds learn to sing and humans learn to speak.
Artificial intelligence is learning in seconds what took humans a lifetime to master.
Sueur and Pelé have seen Japanese macaques washing potatoes, riding deer for transportation, taking hot-spring baths, handling stones, fighting with snowballs and many other things you'd class as "human". They've written a book about these amazing monkeys which will be out soon.
Scientists estimate that 43% of Brits now experience chronic pain or around 28 million people.
This is some scary stuff.
Things are about to get much worse.
This could be a game changer for women.
It works 100 times more efficiently than your laptop.
A new study from Yale University mapped urban centers from 3700 B.C. to 2000 A.D. It's an amazing ride!
You just can't brush off this technology.
A Japanese designer and an Italian shoemaker teamed up to create the shoes of the future.
Do your learning, take a break, and then work out.
A color with the appropriately dull name of Pantone 448C has been identified by researchers as the ugliest color in existence.
After studying prairie dogs for 25 years, one researcher believes he figured out what prairie dogs are communicating about. He believes that the animals are not only very efficient communicators, but they also have an eye for details. Gunnison’s prairie dog (Cynomys gunnisoni) is one of five species of the prairie dog. Their name is […]
There's only one fossil of this dinosaur that we ever found -- and you're looking at it.
Not much bigger than an apartment building, 2016 HO3 has been confirmed as Earth's newest satellite.
Higher qualifications, fewer jobs. What's happening?
It's simple, easy, and they've been doing it for centuries!
Shaped by erosion, fire, or water, caves have some surprising but always beautiful births.
They may be more common than we thought.
What would you if you had the power of invisibility? It's possible in virtual reality. The sensations are as real as they get, though.
The golden age of black oil is ending says a new report
Even though you shouldn't care about helping your third cousin from Wisconsin, chances have it you'll do. Now, there's a new game theory model that explains why this happens.
A new study found there are some added benefits to keeping the coffee in the fridge, which not even the best baristas know.
2016 will go in history as the first year carbon emission stay above 400ppm all year round. I don't think anyone's proud about this.
As if finding happiness wasn't complicated enough, we now have a multi-variable equation.
Thousands of light years away, a two-handed molecule might help us unravel the secrets of life.
Children judge a book by its cover.
As they whizzed past ramparts, the holed-bullets whistled, "or more accurately gave off a mechanical buzzing sound eerily reminiscent of an agitated wasp," archeologists said.
