Water droplets on soap films orbited and merged like colliding galaxies, a technique that could help scientists study the ...

Technologies, including chatbots, promise to make life easier. But removing the friction, or effort involved in thinking, has ...

Female rats prefer gentler, more playful tickling than males, Bombail and his colleagues report April 15 in Biology Letters.

More than half of rural hospitals and more than one-third of urban hospitals did not offer labor and delivery services in ...

As public health officials around the world monitor dozens of former passengers and crewmembers of the MV Hondius for signs ...

Maybe you can’t detect the scent of grass anymore. Or maybe coffee’s aroma now triggers disgust. After getting COVID-19, your sense of smell may seem persistently off. You’re not alone. Even years ...

March 11 marks the fourth anniversary of the World Health Organization’s declaration that the COVID-19 outbreak was a pandemic. COVID-19 hasn’t gone away, but there have been plenty of actions that ...

Tenets of quantum mechanics and special relativity, among other theoretical ideas, lead inexorably to string theory.

A 59,000-year-old Neandertal molar unearthed in Siberia was drilled with a stone tool – the earliest evidence of primitive ...

Africa’s Turkana Rift Zone, a hotbed of hominin fossils, is caught in the act of “necking," a critical transition toward ...

Around one in 500 women don’t have a functioning womb, needed to carry a pregnancy. This condition, called absolute uterine ...

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