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When a volcano is dormant, it typically doesn’t tend to make much noise. However, the Iliamna Volcano in Alaska is defying what we thought we knew about volcanos by rumbling despite being marked dormant for over a century.

According to…

Pharmacology, the science of drugs and how they affect our bodies, is constantly evolving. It brings us new and improved treatments for everyday ailments while shedding fresh light on the long-term effects of medications used for decades.

A recent…

Key Takeaways on Parasitoid Wasps

• Parasitoid wasps lay their eggs in or on their hosts. The wasps’ larvae then consume the host, sometimes from the inside out.

• Parasitoid wasps can be found on every single continent except Antarctica.

• Some species…

A huge and “incredibly rare” chunk of Mars that crash-landed in the Sahara will go on…

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets, and in your drink as you cool off from the summer heat. However, under the microscope, not all ice is the same, even though it is made of the…

Plastic can take a long time to break down and decompose. Combine that with the fact that plastic is being found everywhere and microplastics have even been found in the human body, and you have quite the recipe for disaster. Now, it…

Scour the internet and you’ll find many adorable videos of dogs who have seemingly learned to ‘talk’ to their owners, by pressing electronic buttons, preprogrammed to say certain words, called soundboards.

There’s Copper the labrador, who…

Human engineering appears to have moved the planet, literally. According to new research published this month, the global boom in dam construction over the past two centuries has caused measurable shifts in Earth’s poles. The data…

You might think of lung cancer as a “smoker’s disease,” but new research suggests that isn’t the case at all. Instead, there are several factors that have been tied to genetic mutations which can contribute to the development of…