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Just how do spiders walk straight up—and even upside-down across—so many different types of surfaces? Answering this question...
Forest fires have crept higher up mountains over the past few decades, scorching areas previously too wet to burn, according...
A research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory and Purdue University have developed bio-inks for biosensors that could help...
To the human eye, most stationary objects appear to be just that—still, and completely at rest. Yet if we were handed a quantum...
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New UMD study suggests that everywhere tyrannosaurs rose to dominance, their juveniles took over the ecological role of medium-sized...
When animals are hot, they eat less. This potentially fatal phenomenon has been largely overlooked in wild animals, explain researchers...
Scientists have identified key molecular events in the developing human embryo between days 7 and 14—one of the most mysterious,...
One of the best things about that universe is that there is so much to it. If you look hard enough, you can most likely find...