Scanners show that canine brains respond to words like humans.
1,500 years ago, urbanites in Mesoamerica's biggest city domesticated rabbits for fun and profit.
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Astronomers have discovered evidence of a small, rocky planet orbiting our nearest star. Could Proxima b ever sustain life? The little planet orbits our sun’s nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri.
The subtle mechanics of densely packed cells may help explain why some cancerous tumors stay put while others break off and spread through the body.
In 1953 scientists investigating Piltdown Man, an alleged "missing link" between modern humans and apes, concluded that it was a fake. But their investigation couldn't answer the question: Who had done it, and why? Many suspects have been proposed, but we now finally know the culprit in this long-standing mystery.
We may be close to understanding the interactions of quarks and gluons within the nucleus of atoms, and when we do one of the longest-standing mysteries of physics, where the mass of the known matter of the universe comes from, may finally yield to humanity.
Climate change can result in unanticipated release into the environment of toxic and radioactive wastes that were optimistically presumed at the time to be stably isolated
The first cells may have been anaerobic, heat tolerant, and hydrogen-fed.
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