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Snakes climbing trees use significantly more force than necessary to grip, a strategy detailed in Biology Letters. This overcompensation, sometimes tr ...
On this week's episode of the Best of Quirks & Quarks with Bob McDonald: lizard bubble breathing, ancient puberty, zapping an ...
Last month, over 350 academics, clinicians, and activists signed an open letter titled “Biology is not binary.” Addressed to Bridget Phillipson, the United Kingdom’s Minister for Women and Equalities, ...
The new system, which combines generative AI and machine learning, has performed with 100% accuracy some of the surgical ...
This suggests that the health risks of Monday anxiety are more than just an occupational hazard. They might reflect a broader ...
Image credit: Klump et al, Biology Letters Research from 2011 found the number of sulphur-crested cockatoos in Sydney had risen steadily during the three previous decades. They’d become used to humans ...
Over the past 400 years or so, a set of mostly unwritten guidelines has evolved for how science should be properly done. The ...
Researchers have uncovered four distinct types of autism, each with its own genetic fingerprint, which could unlock the ...
Nigerian singer 2baba has claimed that a man cannot be with just one woman sexually. The music star who recently married ...
The University of Pennsylvania will block transgender athletes from female sports teams and erase the records set by swimmer ...
For years, scientists have believed that inflammation inevitably increases with age, quietly fuelling diseases like heart ...
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