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Gray wolves were reintroduced in Yellowstone National Park in 1995 to help control the numbers of elk that were eating young ...
Peatlands cover just a fraction of Earth's surface, but store huge amounts of carbon. In the Peruvian Amazon, one of these ...
A new test called PAC-MANN is designed to detect signs of pancreatic cancer in blood. It's still in development, but the hope is that it will help catch the deadly cancer early.
Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a rare 2,600-year-old Etruscan tomb that somehow escaped looters over the centuries.
This 2023 astronaut photo shows three glaciers merging into a single massive ice mass in the Karakoram mountains. The stripy ...
Experts have debated the meaning of this tomb offering for decades but generally agree it depicts some sort of ceremony or ...
Scans of the man's affected hand and foot revealed "destructive lytic lesions that had completely replaced" the bones in the tips of the middle finger and big toe. Lytic lesions are areas where bone ...
The Walker S2 humanoid robot, which can change its own battery when it's running low on power, could potentially be left to ...
Gain-of-function experiments can help researchers get ahead of viruses naturally gaining the ability to infect people in the wild. But they're also used for many other areas of study within biology.
​​In pursuit of prestige and riches, wealthy people across medieval Europe worked in vain to transmute everyday metals into ...
When two fluids don't mix well, they sometimes form strange patterns called "viscous fingering," or Saffman-Taylor ...
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