On August 6, 1945, the US dropped the first nuclear bomb on the unsuspecting Japanese city of Hiroshima. This cataclysmic ...

Even the largest sharks don’t have bones, which presents an obstacle to palaeontologists, but they’ve found a workaround.

The longer this man stayed in the hospital, the more obvious his condition became. “In the first 24 hours of admission, he ...

C alifornian authorities are warning people to avoid the meat of wild pigs in Monterey County as something strange and deeply ...

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R esearchers have successfully induced lucid dreams involving feelings of compassion and a sense of ego-loss in four ...

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The answer that has eluded scientists for decades also has implications for how carbon is stored in the ocean.

Foa’s red colobus typically has a red crown around a grey face, with its body said to resemble someone wearing a grey shirt with red sleeves and red trousers. Males can weigh between 9 to 13 kilograms ...

O n May 18, 1991, cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev departed Earth for the Soviet space station Mir. While he was up there, the country that had sent him ceased to exist, making Krikalev – for a few months at ...

This is not the only recent record-breaking event when it comes to quantum cat experiments. Last year, researchers successfully placed the heaviest macroscopic object in superposition. It was a ...

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