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Big-brained birds were better at adapting to their rapidly shifting environment -- and that may have ultimately saved them.
Is this the ultimate thrill-seeking, or just a very dangerous spa treatment?
We have to stop underestimating Wikipedia's power as a reliable information source.
It's always best to be prepared, especially when it comes to asteroids.
A single molecule controls a switch from worker to queen.
... and honestly, we like this report.
Many people hate both casual hookups and illicit drugs. Scientists found a genetic connection and the underlying motives may surprise you.
Dumping coal is a top priority for the environment. So why are we still pumping it?
As long as we understand what they mean, they're all the same language to our brains.
It impacts their ability to perform, as well as putting them at risk of developing mental health conditions.
This will teach us a lot about how the element forms in the Universe.
Although the process is not efficient, it's a proof of concept for carbon neutral liquid fuel.
If countries deliver, it could make a big difference to the climate crisis.
Dogs tilt their heads when they're focusing on associating the meaning of a word with a task.
The findings bring us a step closer to finding signs of past habitability on the red planet.
More to the point, the decline in whale populations is affecting the health of ocean ecosystems.
They could teach us how to do it as well.
In our interconnected world, being able to trace the world's food has never been more challenging -- and more important.
We carried out a study that could help us better prepare for volcanic eruptions.
It's the first time NASA has grown hot peppers in space -- and they're apparently delicious.
In an increasingly desertifying planet, these gene candidates could save some of our food crops.
I really like this idea.
Exoplanet composition may be much more varied and weird than we thought.
Your daily actions can have important consequences on the other side of the world.
We're losing one of our last remaining links to nature.
A talking seal inspired scientists to look to the marine mammals for clues that might untangle the origin of speech.
The carrot may be better than the stick when rallying support for policies that tackle climate change.
He even apologized for the US leaving the Paris Agreement.
A reminder that our asteroid monitoring program is riddled with gaping holes.
It works well, and it works fast.
It's the first electric plane to pass the Cook Strait in New Zealand.
It can be self-administered by anyone, which would make it ideal as a 'booster' shot patients can pick up from local pharmacies.
It's an approach employed by several different species.
The world's richest promised "meaningful and effective actions" to curb climate change -- but we've heard promises before.
We tend to forget how important and healthy it is to just spend some time by ourselves.
If it weren't for the federal government spending on extra unemployment benefits and stimulus checks, this last recession would have been much worse.
With the ongoing pandemic, climate change has been left in the background.
Sometimes, we just have to keep grinding down on those deadlines. Researchers can help with that.
Nothing actually new under the sun, but the new designation aims to clear a lot of confusion surrounding the human family tree.
If no action is taken to address antibiotic resistance, infections from multidrug-resistant bacteria could cause 10 million deaths each year by 2050.
The planet's innermost layer is more like a soup than a brick.
We need to start being better stewards of the planet -- or pay the price.
How much do we have to worry about the new "Delta plus" strain?
In a remote area of Brazil, capuchin monkeys have been adapting their own stone tools for thousands of years.
Sensory adaptation follows the same response curve across all organisms, scientists have proposed in a new study.
The pandemic is far from over.
Nobody likes surgery -- antibiotics can help with that!
It could help protect the environment while giving us the same experience as a regular cup of coffee.
From below the water's surface, swimming humans may look like food -- especially to great white juvenilles.
It would travel faster and farther than any man-made object we've made thus far.
