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However, the most recent definition of long COVID in the US, proposed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ...

A parasitic worm that can burrow into the skin may help inspire the next generation of painkillers, potentially providing a ...

To test the theory, the study authors examined ethnographic reports from 60 cultures around the world. Summing up their ...

Two researchers from University College Cork in Ireland and the University of Barcelona in Spain used new high-resolution ...

A team from the Department of Chemistry and Skaggs Institute for Chemical Biology at the Scripps Research Institute have ...

D o dolphins and whales actually play together, or are the dolphins just harassing the whales? Researchers sought to answer this question by looking through hundreds of photographs and video clips in ...

The orbit of the Moon is slightly slanted with respect to the orbit of the Earth around the Sun. If the two were the same, we would get a lunar and solar eclipse every month. Instead, they tend to ...

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...

Yawning is seen in a diverse range of animal species, both those that live on land and underwater, but do all animals yawn? We wanted to know, too.

If and when completed, it will be significantly longer than that of the world’s current longest suspension bridge, the 2,023-meter (6,637-foot) long 1915 Çanakkale Bridge that connects the European ...

The good-ish news for any water-loving arachnophobes out there is that diving bell spiders are at least quite small, measuring between 8 to 15 millimeters (0.3 to 0.6 inches) in length, so could be ...