Pigeons trained to drop artillery from the sky paved the way for the modern touch screen.
During World War II, the US Navy and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) trained the birds …
Scientists are using a combination of outer space technology and crowdsourced observations to map the location of aurora.
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The fireworks that go boom so colorfully every Fourth of July are a chemical cocktail of explosives and pigments.
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The tarantula hawk is actually a kind of solitary wasp, with a sting that causes a fiercely electric pain that could only be described as totally unacceptable.
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It's been said science is a full contact sport. And no branch gets rowdier in a political sense than health care.
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Scientists haven’t rigorously tested the cosmic microwave background for a revealing shift in 25 years. A new experiment aims to change that.
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My son's epilepsy caused him to have up to 100 seizures a day. Our last hope: an untested, unproven treatment.
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Leelah Alcorn, a trans youth who endured conversion therapy, wrote in her suicide note, “The only way I will rest in peace is if one day transgender people aren’t treated the way I was, they’re …
Scientists have been changing genes in livestock embryos for decades in efforts to boost production. And it might be time for them to show up on your plate.
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You trust sunscreen, and it comes through. But have you ever wondered how the stuff works?
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