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Why birds do not fall while sleeping

French cheese under threat from lack of microbial diversity

A sociologist spent years in Silicon Valley to try to understand its codes and see beyond its deceptive simplicity

A physical model consistent with the history of the Earth-Moon system

The Event Horizon Telescope collaboration has obtained the very first image of Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the heart of our Galaxy

The first published data from the Perseverance rover shows that there was a large, deep lake on Mars 3.6 billion years ago, and that it was swept away by a climate upheaval

A shell researchers mistook for water pitcher when it was discovered in 1931 could actually be one of the world's oldest musical instruments, dating back 18,000 years

Earth's first lifeforms may have started moving as far back as 2.1 billion years ago, suggests a new study of small fossilized tunnels found in Gabon

Overfishing is triggering the collapse of seabird populations, says a new global study that trawled through 40 years of worldwide data

This new bionic arm requires no surgery or extensive training, using instead a phenomenon called "phantom limb mobility" to control it

A World Without Work: Six Scenarios

Asylum seekers do not "burden" European economies, says a new macroeconomic study that examined 30 years of data

Researchers believe they have identified the first-known asteroid currently orbiting the Sun to have immigrated from a neighboring star system

A new study suggests that the overrepresentation of wild animals in our everyday lives (toys, films, ads) makes us forget that they are on the verge of extinction

Mont Saint Michel Reveals New Secrets

Exceptional find of large animal sculptures in the Saudi Arabian desert dating back to the first centuries reveals artistic inclinations of local populations

The Machine that Selected the Citizens of Athens

Today’s domestic cat is a descendant of the wildcats that inhabited the Middle East during the Neolithic age, says new paleogenetic study conducted on the remains of 230 ancient animals over 10,000 years.

Calcium isotopes in fossil teeth may reveal why large marine reptiles vanished from the Earth’s oceans during the K–T mass extinction event 66 million years ago

Whistled speech—over 70 varieties still exist today worldwide—is used to convey complex sentences over large distances

Chemists have synthetized—and for the first time experimentally analyzed—a molecule based on an extremely unstable form of thulium, one of the rare earth elements known as lanthanides

New study shows brainless slime can also share 'learned' knowledge by fusion

Nero's Rotating Dining Room

Researchers believe they now know how Mars got its two small moons Phobos and Deimos

Researchers develop a device that can test biochemical reactions in 10,000 different conditions—simultaneously

By tracking lead pollution in sediment, researchers were able to retrace ancient Naples' history right after the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD

New study shows how dust from Africa's deserts spreads across the globe and plays an important role in climate change

Researchers put RFID tags on school children to accurately map social patterns and better model the spread of infectious diseases

Building solar farms above the clouds

A Battery Revolution in Motion

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