A 68-million-year-old skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird, which was likely related to ...

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Researchers at Kyoto University spent more than 600 hours studying 20 captive chimps to determine if urination is socially contagious among them.

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These language families, including Germanic, Indo-Iranian and Celtic, evolved from a common tongue called the ...

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New research at NAU looks at faster warming in the Arctic, and highlights concern about risks to the U.S. of a political ...

The internet erupted in controversy over Felisa Wolfe-Simon and colleagues’ claim of a microbe thriving on arsenic. Nearly 15 ...

In a breakthrough for influenza research, scientists have discovered immune cells that can recognise influenza (flu) viruses even as they mutate, raising hopes for a longer-lasting vaccine and a ...

A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

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