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Neuropeptide Y May Have Made Humans Smart and Overindul...

A brain chemical may play a role in the development of our complex brain, as wel...

Lethal Heat Is Spreading across the Planet

Since 1970 more than 350 weather stations have experienced at least one six-hour...

Without Small Data, AI in Health Care Contributes to Di...

Artificial intelligence systems in health care must be trained on the data of li...

The Ozone Hole Showed Humans Could Damage Earth and Tha...

The discovery of a hole in Earth’s protective ozone layer in 1985 led to a world...

Mysterious Moonquake Traced to Apollo 17 Lunar Lander Base

The Apollo 17 lunar lander base is creating small-scale moonquakes on a daily basis

Candy Crush Is Complicated--Even from a Mathematical Po...

Don’t be annoyed if you fail at a certain level of the popular game Candy Crush ...

Mathematicians Solve 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle

A trapezoid was key to discovering the elusive answer to a riddle about Möbius s...

Scientists Are Beginning to Learn the Language of Bats ...

The new field of digital bioacoustics is machine learning to try decipher animal...

Food Can Be Literally Addictive, New Evidence Suggests

Highly processed foods resemble drugs of misuse in a number of disturbing ways

Antarctic Research Stations Polluted a Pristine Wilderness

Historical bad practices have left a legacy of pollution in the fragile ecosyste...

How Fires, Floods and Hurricanes Create Deadly Pockets ...

Telecommunications grids are vulnerable to worsening climate disasters—which hig...

Large Herbivores Can Help Prevent Massive Wildfires

Reintroducing large herbivores into fire-prone areas can help combat the global ...

Heat Waves May Be Slow, but They Are Just as Destructiv...

After weeks at 100 degrees F, the drought and heat wave in Texas are taking thei...

Trying to Train Your Brain Faster? Knowing This Might H...

Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive f...

How Hurricanes Jova and Lee Rapidly Exploded into Categ...

Within days of each other, Hurricane Jova in the Pacific and Hurricane Lee in th...

'Weird' Dinosaur Prompts Rethink of Bird Evolution

A newly described fossil is as old as the “first bird,” Archaeopteryx, and repre...

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