Not only must your brain maintain a vast archive of existing memories, but it also has to keep track of new stuff each day.

It turns out that a shocking number of mammals can glow in the dark. Shine a blacklight on a mob of Australian animals and ...

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There's nothing quite like getting lost in an excellent book (or an article from your favorite science news site).

"My only regret in life is that I didn't drink enough champagne," the English economist and philosopher John Maynard Keynes ...

Researchers have found that a spear tip carved from bone, unearthed from Russia in 2003, is as old as 80,000 years.

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Scientists have sequenced the genome of one of the rarest animals in the world: the 'Asian unicorn', which hasn't been seen ...

If this supernova is lopsided, the neutron star can be booted unceremoniously across the galaxy at high speeds, something ...

Offering incredibly high temperatures, crushing pressure, and a thick mix of carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid, the atmosphere ...

With cannabis now legal in much of the US, the focus is shifting from the ethics of using the drug to the health implications ...

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