The result was striking. Kissing almost certainly existed in the ancestor of today’s large apes, which lived somewhere ...

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Fifteen years ago, researchers working deep in Uganda's Kibale National Park watched something unsettling unfold. The Ngogo ...

What if the secret to stronger, cavity-proof teeth was hiding in your hair? It sounds wild, but scientists from King's ...

Imagine a type of matter where particles are arranged in a neat crystal pattern but can flow without friction. This peculiar state is called a supersolid, requiring particles to share a common phase ...

Caption:MIT researchers created a periodic table of machine learning that shows how more than 20 classical algorithms are connected. The new framework sheds light on how scientists could fuse ...

Neurons and their branch extensions known as dendrites are featured within a mouse’s cerebral cortex. How does the brain encode new information, like job tasks or song lyrics? Scientists at the ...

Lucid dreams occur when a person is aware they are dreaming while still in the dream state. This phenomenon happens during REM sleep and has numerous potential applications, from solving physiological ...

A diamond slice of a South African diamond showing various inclusion-rich zones and laser ablation pits from microanalytical sampling. Credit Yaakov Weiss The chemical mood of Earth’s mantle, its ...

The two Yunxian skulls used in the study were highly distorted, but Xijun Ni and his colleagues were able to reconstruct them using 3D modelling. ©Mr. Guanghui Zhao In the quiet bends of the Han River ...

Human dominance and aggression are deeply rooted in our evolution and influence social and political behavior. Without conscious effort, these primal drives will continue to cause inequality and ...