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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“Instead of having this sizable metal structure to receive the signal, we now can use this small glass cell of atoms that can be about a centimeter in size,” co-author Matthew Simons, from the ...

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 ...

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.

For a croc, it seems “surf’s up” is within an hour of the tide changing, as this was the window during which they would begin ...

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 ...

The monolith-like stony structure was a volcanic dike, a sheet of tabular rock that formed when magma set in the fracture of pre-existing rock. This one was found at a depth of 2,040 meters (6,693 ...