November 13, 2024 • Birds descended from the dinosaurs, but researchers have known relatively little about how the bird's brain took shape over millions of years. A new fossil sheds light on ...

Languages are a significant barrier to the global transfer of scientific knowledge, according to a 2016 study. Out of the 100 ...

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UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double ...

In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

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This year's U.N. climate summit - COP29 - is being held during yet another record-breaking year of higher global temperatures ...

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Researchers have created the first blueprint of the human spliceosome, the most complex and intricate molecular machine ...