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What fish have instead of a tongue is something called a basihyal, a bony slab sitting on the floor of the mouth that looks a ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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.

Do 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...