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We’ve learned a lot over the years from dinosaur fossils: what they looked like, how they moved, and even what diseases they may have had. Recently, what seemed like an insignificant blip on an X-ray has revealed an exciting new facet of dino…

If you want to buy an electric vehicle or another device with an electric motor, chances are that motor will contain a magnet made with rare-earth minerals. These are compounds like neodymium and dysprosium that are difficult to find…

Forget what you thought you knew about alpha males: a major new study suggests that clear-cut male dominance in primate societies is far from universal – and that in many species, females hold equal power or even come out on top.

Researchers…

How will the world end? While some, like Robert Frost, have waxed poetic about the end of life on Earth—fire or ice—others have been looking to science to solve the mystery. Even still, others have been looking at the bigger…

Two new studies have uncovered fresh clues about when and where cats were first domesticated – and the findings point squarely at ancient Egypt. But rather than cosy companions or handy pest controllers, early domestic cats may have been bred…

As climate change ramps up temperatures around the world, it’s not just humans feeling the heat — dairy cows are struggling, too. 

A new study, published in Science Advances, suggests that extreme heat can cut milk production by up to 10…

Adopted in 1958, the GRAS exemption was intended to cover the use of commonplace ingredients, explains Jensen Jose, regulatory counsel for the nonprofit watchdog Center for Science in the Public Interest, based in Washington, DC. “It was so you…

At its peak some 3,000 years ago, the ancient Mesopotamian city of Babylon was the largest metropolis on Earth. Renowned for their literacy, the city’s residents left behind stacks of cuneiform tablets in the Sippar Library.

While many of the…

Chinese scientists have discovered subtle new earlier signs of Parkinson’s in mice, an…