The peppermint stick insect packs a peppermint-scented blast powerful enough to fend off hungry predators in Australia’s ...

In 1980, philosopher John Searle developed a thought experiment in response to AI advancement at the time. His aim was to ...

An international team led by the University of Michigan has introduced new methods that reveal which regions of the brain ...

This economic evaluation found that insurance premiums have increased at 3 times the rate of workers’ earnings since 1999, ...

Astronomers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have helped uncover new clues about the longest-lasting cosmic ...

Clues about how galaxies like our Milky Way form and evolve and why their stars show surprising chemical patterns have been ...

A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and ...

Quantum technology is accelerating out of the lab and into the real world, and a new article in Science argues that the field ...

When ice melts into water, it happens quickly, with the transition from solid to liquid being immediate. However, very thin materials do not adhere to these rules. Instead, an unusual state between so ...

An international team of astronomers, including researchers from the University of Michigan, has captured unprecedented ...

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(via Minute Earth) n the middle of baby-making, a female praying mantis will sometimes chomp down on a male’s head, then ...