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A genetic study of canines living in Chernobyl's Exclusion Zone separates myth from a potential breakthrough in understanding ...

Scientists have finally explained why mosquitoes prefer some people over others, and it all comes down to your personal scent ...

A team from the University of Georgia has discovered that six species of North American bats emit a bright green glow under ...

A new global synthesis published today in Nature Reviews Biodiversity reveals how seabirds act as powerful connectors between ...

In a rare global collaboration, scientists from Japan and the United States joined forces to explore one of the universe’s ...

Why do we slow down for car crashes or binge true crime? Psychologist Coltan Scrivner says our fascination with fear isn’t just dark — it’s adaptive.

A recent study investigates the radical mundanity principle of the Fermi paradox to understand why evidence of extraterrestrial technological civilizations remains elusive.

Ozempic, MRI machines and flat screen televisions all emerged out of fundamental research decades earlier — the very types of ...