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As the threat of falling spacecraft increases, using earthquake sensors to detect the effects of their sonic booms could ...

Brain scans show a spot in the cerebellum attuned specifically to words, expanding on studies that point to the region's ...

Scientists have long focused on quantifying fear and other negative emotions in animals. Now they’re trying to measure ...

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Walter “Wally” Gilbert is the Carl M. Loeb University Professor Emeritus and Emeritus Chair of the Society of Fellows at ...

Health & Medicine A CDC panel has struck down universal newborn hepatitis B vaccination A reshaped vaccine committee voted to scale back newborn hepatitis B shots despite decades of data showing the ...

At 3.3 billion light-years across, the ring may challenge the “cosmological principle” that the universe looks uniform at sufficiently large scales.

The work suggests early Homo sapiens developed enduring artistic practices as they moved through the islands of Southeast ...