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Partygoers gather near Valencia for the yearly tomato hurling festival.

Study described as ‘necessary first step’ in discovering whether dogs and humans can use push-button devices to communicate

Study: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0307189

Researchers are uncovering the ways by which dad, mom or both parents drinking can result in fetal alcohol syndrome and other lifelong effects on children.

From ice cores extracted from the Tibetan Plateau, scientists recovered the equivalent of 1,705 virus species. Reading their genomes tells the story of 41,000 years of climate change.

John Alfred Tinniswood was born the year the Titanic sank and has lived through the tenure of 24 UK prime ministers

The ultimate capsule wardrobe is sustainable, stress-free and stylish. But what should you put in it?

The would-be thief became distracted after picking up a book about Greek mythology on a bedside table.

Targeting the key players that help your body regulate metabolism could reverse disease progression, including cognitive decline related to Alzheimer’s disease.

Chinese scientists have discovered a "brand-new method" of producing large quantities of water using lunar soil brought back from a 2020 expedition, state broadcaster CCTV reported on Thursday.

Researchers can use powerful microscopes to capture the tiny teeth in squid suckers.

Space may be considered the final frontier, but the US was once a frontier, too. How can space industry leaders avoid repeating practices that led to colonialism in the 18th century and beyond?

The moon will look largest at dusk, one expert says, and those with binoculars should be able to see Saturn’s rings too

São José do Pinheiro once stood out for its lavishness. Now a public space, it hosts a museum and a school of jongo, a tradition of music, dance, spirituality and storytelling

Most familiar stars peacefully orbit the center of the Milky Way. But citizen scientists working on NASA’s Backyard Worlds: Planet 9 project have helped discover an object moving so fast that it will escape the Milky Way’s gravity and shoot into intergalactic space. This hypervelocity object is the first such object found with the mass similar to or […]

Surviving a shark – or lion, or bear – attack is the key criteria for entry into Bite Club. Together its members navigate their next big challenge: what happens after you survive?

Exposure to bacteria in landfill sites and polluted rivers may explain prevalence among city-dwelling birds

Study: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02724-0/fulltext

Team hopes findings will help improve equine welfare after showing cognitive abilities include being ‘goal-directed’

Perseids will be at their height Sunday night into Monday – and viewers will be able to spot a flurry of shooting stars

Nuclear power already has an energy density advantage over other sources of thermal electricity generation. But what if nuclear generation didn’t require a steam turbine? What if the radiation from a reactor was less a problem to be managed and more a source of energy? And what if an energy conversion technology could scale to fit nuclear power systems ranging from miniature batteries to the grid? The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Defense Sciences Office (DSO) is asking these types of questions in a request for information on High Power Direct Energy Conversion from Nuclear Power Systems, released August 1.

Ergodic literature is a subgenre of literature that upends the very fabric of storytelling itself.

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