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Understanding how new neurons affect brain function throughout adulthood can offer new approaches to treating epilepsy and dementia.

Turuchan pikas play all sorts of games, including swinging from branches, throwing food around and hiding them jumping out at each other.

"Even years after the Arecibo Observatory's collapse, its data continues to unlock critical information that can advance our understanding of the galaxy."

Scientists have created a single unit of quantum information using a superconducting circuit and a vibrating sapphire crystal.

Pathogens have distinct electrical charges, shapes and sizes. Measuring how quickly they move through an electric field can help researchers separate different species in a sample in minutes.

From tail up to tail down, what do different cat tail positions and movements mean?

"The most acidic natural inland waters are the lakes that lie in the craters of volcanoes, like Kawah Ijen in Indonesia. These lakes are so rich in sulfuric acid that they may have a pH as low as 0.1. To put this in context, fresh battery acid has a pH of about 0.7. "

A new federal order requires that U.S. dairies provide milk samples to the USDA so the agency can test the milk for bird flu prior to pasteurization.

The 6-year-old boy found the rock and then didn't tell anyone for three years. But a new examination reveals it was made by some of the last Neanderthals.

A new laboratory study in mice suggests that primates like humans evolved large brains with a helping hand from microbes that live in the gut.

The Space Launch System blasts off from its Florida launchpad.

"Budget overruns, bureaucratic malfeasance, congressional oversight, review-​board reckonings, the whole process of rethinking how to test a space telescope from the ground up: Webb had survived them all. One other factor, however, continued to create havoc with the budget and the launch timeline deep into the 2010s — what Menzel called 'stupid mistakes.'"

The astronaut and MIT engineer's monumental milestone was marred by misogyny: "Instead of being on cloud nine, I’m crying in my seat."

'Apex,' one of the most complete stegosaurus fossils ever found, is on display at the American Museum of Natural History.

Scientists hope the body of a pregnant great white shark killed on a drumline will reveal some of the mysteries of the species' reproduction.

The Fossil Forest in Dorset is a stretch of southern English coastline peppered with living mounds of limestone that hide the remains of cypress trees from the late Jurassic period.

The simulations will be used by astronomers to test the standard model of cosmology.

Spoon-like metal objects attached to Roman-era belts may represent drug dosing equipment, researchers suggest.

Earthworms commonly come out when it's wet outside, but why?

A magnitude 7 earthquake struck off the coast of Petrolia, California on Thursday (Dec. 5).