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Some scientists are becoming clam ‘whisperers’ to better predict when our planet’s climate will tip over into dangerous territory. A tight-lipped bivalve might sound like an odd creature for researchers…
Clues within ancient animal poop challenge the current prevailing theory that humans tamed plants before beasts. Researchers found the preserved dung in question alongside buried remains of ancient hunter-gatherer dwellings…
Hundreds of millions of years ago, a carnivorous critter gorged on a feast of prehistoric amphibians – and puked up its meal afterward. Now, paleontologists have unearthed the regurgitation and…
Grinding away at a job while everybody else sleeps can put your mental health at risk. According to new research, confining your dining to daytime hours might help reduce the…
Built in the 1980s, the Balbina Dam is one of dozens of large dams across rivers in the Amazon Basin. Such dams might leave behind seemingly green patches of forest,…
A Los Angeles County resident with a severely weakened immune system has died of monkeypox, the Los Angeles Department of Public Health reported Monday (September 12). The US Centers for…
As any frustrated parent knows, there’s no magic way to get a crying baby to calm, let alone fall asleep. But a small new study has now highlighted a simple…
Past research in humans shows that damage to our squishy brain tissue is already done with even just one knock to the head. But repeated concussions can also thicken the…
Dramatic footage showed killer whales using a rare hunting technique to trap and kill a seal in the icy waters surrounding Antarctica. The video, part of the BBC’s new Frozen…
We have exactly one world, in all the Universe, that we know for a fact to be hospitable to life: ours. So when we’re looking for habitable planets in other…