Scientists believe that the function of zebras' stripes are to deter insects, so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on cows

Maya people at the ancient city of Tikal in Guatemala used a mineral called zeolite to decontaminate drinking water in one of their large reservoirs

Anthropologists from Tulane University filmed a group of capuchin monkeys working together to successfully rescue a juvenile monkey from a Boa constrictor.

A Psychological Trick Changed Diabetics' Blood Sugar Levels

A 1,260-year-old jawbone from an Antarctic southern elephant seal was found in Indiana's Wabash River

A UC-San Diego masters student has engineered a "mobile gravity suit" that could slow the ravages of weightlessness on astronauts' bodies suffered during extended spaceflight.

Move over Graphene? Here Comes Borophene

Men and Women Misperceive What the Opposite Sex Finds Attractive. Women overestimated men's preference for thinness in female partners

Due to sea level rise, 50-year coastal flooding events will occur annually across 70% of the U.S. coastline by 2050.

Stanford researchers have created a proof-of-concept smart toilet that monitors stools based on the Bristol stool scale, analyzes urine flow and chemical composition…

Scientists believe that the function of zebras' stripes are to deter insects, so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on cows

Disproved Discoveries That Won Nobel Prizes

A new lithium ion battery design for electric vehicles permits charging to 80% capacity in just ten minutes, adding 200 miles of range

Scientists believe that the function of zebras' stripes are to deter insects, so a team of researchers painted black and white stripes on cows

An anthropologist has found the first evidence for ultrasound echolocation in primates

Technically, Earth Does Not Orbit Around the Sun (2014)

Scientists found 1 billion-year-old fossil cells so well preserved they could see structures inside

Human-raised wolves are just as successful as trained dogs at working with humans to solve cooperative tasks, suggesting that dogs' ability to cooperate with humans came from wolves…

Atomic bomb survivors exposed to between 0.005 and 0.5 Grays of radiation had lower relative mortality than control subjects not exposed to atomic bomb radiation

Llamas Could Lead Us to a Universal Flu Vaccine

A new Cochrane systematic review of randomized controlled trials finds that homeopathy is ineffective at treating or preventing acute respiratory tract infections in children.

Scientists have found the earliest evidence of severe tooth decay in hominids

In a survey of over 2,800 Americans, 65% of people responded that they are "more intelligent than the average person."

Ecology Appears to be the Driving Force Behind Large Human Brains, as Opposed to Social Behavior

A study led by Harvard researchers finds that stretching reduced tumor growth by 52 percent in mice injected with breast cancer cells

Individuals with low-muscle mass have a higher risk of death than others with a similar body mass index

LiDAR Reveals an Ancient Roman Highway

A Systematic Review Shows How to Maintain Sexual Desire in a Relationship

A study finds that atheists and nonreligious people do not differ from religious people in feelings of nihilism or fatalism and are more likely to believe that meaning in life is self-produced.

The Varroa mite may be the biggest threat to honeybees. Now, scientists have found a new way to fight them

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