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Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.
The internet has rewritten the rules for how we work, how we shop, and even how we fall in love. In the mid-20th century, ...
The bone container is a hollowed-out sheep or goat femur intentionally sealed at one end with a birch-bark tar plug. It ...
A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...
Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...
One afternoon on the coast of Hokkaido, a small rubber duck bobbed in the waves, anchored to a seaside rock. It wasn’t tethered with screws or cement. Instead, it clung there because of a transparent, ...
A team of scientists at King’s College London thinks there might be another way. They’ve found that keratin — the same ...
But between the Roman era and the first sustained arrival of Africans, most enslaved, during the Tudor era (early 16th ...
In the lexicon of economic afflictions, “stagflation” is one of the bad ones. The term (a portmanteau of “stagnation” and ...
Mercury is still shrinking as it cools in the aftermath of its formation; new research narrows down estimates of just how ...