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Perhaps cold dark matter particles undergo a similar oscillatory effect. The authors find that the best fit to observational ...

Sitting in my doctor's examination room, I was surprised when she told me, "Genetics don't really matter for chronic disease.

There's no shortage of advice out there on the right work-life balance, and a new study gives us some fresh insight into the ...

Videos of men removing their eyelashes, by trimming or shaving, have been circulating on social media in recent weeks.

More than 50 years ago in the early 1960s, the Soviet space program embarked on a bold new undertaking to go where no human ...

An aurora gently glowing in wavelengths visible to the human eye has been captured on Mars for the first time – and a robot ...

Chimpanzees in the wild are performing what looks like first aid on each other's wounds, and primatologists are only just beginning to formally catalogue the behavior.

On 14 May 2025, the Sun erupted with the biggest flare we've seen all year. From the eastern limb of the Sun – that is, the left side – active sunspot region (AR) 4087 erupted in a huge, X2.7 solar ...

The setup for The Last of Us video game and TV series involves a fungus that evolves due to climate change to infect swathes ...

A new study of Venus suggests that the deeply inhospitable world may be more like Earth than we thought.

The emergence of four-legged animals known as tetrapods was a key step in the evolution of many species today – including humans.