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Children love to play pretend, holding imaginary tea parties, educating classrooms of teddies or running their own grocery stores. Now, a new study suggests that such make-believe play is not a uniquely human…

For centuries, across cultures, those attending the dying have noted flashes of…

Imagine that you want to know the most efficient way to make a torus—a doughnut-shaped mathematical object—from origami paper. But this torus, which is a surface, looks drastically different than the outside of a glazed bakery doughnut….

Yellowstone’s earthquakes spark microbial boom deep underground

By Damien Pine edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier

From skating to curling, the thrilling sports of the Winter Olympics have plenty of science behind them. Follow our coverage here to learn more.

For at least a decade, the quadruple axel jump was figure skating’s white whale. “It’s been this…

Hopes are high for a powerful new compound aimed at lowering blood fat levels responsible for potentially fatal heart disease. In a recent trial, the oral drug, TLC-2716, lowered blood triglycerides by almost 40 percent and remnant…

When British archaeologist Howard Carter and local Egyptians…