Dr. Benjamin Spock is remembered as one of the foremost authorities on raising children. His influential and prolific books, ...

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Researchers have developed a low-cost visible light communication (VLC) system using commercially available hardware that ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the ...

Near the equator, the Sun hurries below the horizon in a matter of minutes. Darkness seeps from the surrounding forest.

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American science is facing a looming collaboration crisis. Researchers around the world are deciding not to present at ...

For the first time, scientists have reconstructed ancient genomes of Human betaherpesvirus 6A and 6B (HHV-6A/B) from ...

It’s a new year, and according to a new paper, physics is headed into a new era. Over the past few years, the field of ...

We all love a good mineral water. All those tasty particles must be great, right? Well, let's talk about the one kind of ...