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In medieval times, astrology was considered a serious science, a branch of astronomy. Curator Larisa Grollemond of the Getty Museum, walks us through the medieval zodiac and how someone’s sign ...

Imagine using artificial intelligence to compare two seemingly unrelated creations—biological tissue and Beethoven's ...

For more than a millennium, many Andean peoples used an object called a "khipu" (also spelled "quipu" and pronounced "key-poo ...

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A number of scientists based in the US claim they are being censored because of their scepticism, while others are said to be too afraid of the consequences to object to tests on animals.

Octopuses have a superpower. They can cling to nearly any surface, no matter how wet or slippery, with their sucker-lined tentacles. Now, scientists at Virginia Tech have tapped into this ability to ...

“All Killer, No Filler…” If you’ve ever played with refrigerator magnets, you’re familiar with the way that magnets attract or repel other objects. What you might not know is that even ...

Two humpback whales were found dead in krill fishing nets near Antarctica earlier this year, while a third whale had serious injuries, a report from a conservation conference in Hobart has ...

Performing these tests, however, is extraordinarily difficult because it requires objects that are both small enough to be detectably affected by the laws of quantum mechanics and yet massive enough ...

Object permanence refers to understanding that objects continue to exist even when out of sight. Some people may misinterpret symptoms of ADHD as problems with object permanence, but research ...