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Nature's magic is hidden in plain sight. AI may now equip us to translate the patterns of our environments into a language we ...

MOST people who suffer a bout of thrush are glad to see it gone after a few days. But for Danni-Lea Sandland, it took over ...

Polar bears aren't white, strawberries aren't berries and the Earth isn't round—we'll have you rethinking everything you ...

On this day in 2016, pupils at Wheldrake with Thorganby School were given a unique lesson about germs, using glitter as an educational tool.

LIKE most people, I abhor cruelty towards animals; like most people, I eat some meat and hope that the animal it has come from has been ...

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We all know how awful it feels to be left out of a conversation while everyone else laughs at a joke or nods in agreement at ...

The uncanny underwater forest was discovered in 2017 when deep-sea researchers were exploring an underwater mountain in the ...

Below 3,000 feet, the ocean stops playing by the rules. The local creatures hadn’t gotten the memo that eyes should be on the ...

A Japanese-led research team has developed AUN, a groundbreaking immune-independent bacterial cancer therapy that uses two harmonized bacteria to destroy tumors even in patients with weakened immune ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa -- an environmental bacteria that can cause devastating multidrug-resistant infections, particularly in people with underlying lung conditions -- evolved rapidly and then spread ...