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Seagulls favour food that has been handled by humans, new research shows. Herring gulls were presented with two identical food items—one of which they had...

Some species of deaf moths can absorb as much as 85 per cent of the incoming sound energy from predatory bats—who use echolocation to...

The Arctic has experienced the warming effects of global climate change faster than any other region on the planet. Scientists at the Scripps Institution...

It sounds like alchemy: take a clump of white dust, squeeze it in a diamond-studded pressure chamber, then blast it with a laser. Open...

For 20 years, researchers have studied how light rotates around a longitudinal axis parallel to the direction light travels. But could it move in...

A new study reported in the journal Current Biology on February 24 offers some of the first evidence that gray whales might depend on a magnetic...

War potentially creates a 'boys' club' where men help each other more than they help women, according to new research carried out at the...

With a new CRISPR gene-editing methodology, scientists from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign inactivated one of the genes responsible for an inherited form...

In Quebec, gravestones did not come into common use until the second half of the 19th century, so historical cemeteries contain many unmarked graves....

In the animal kingdom, survival essentially boils down to eat or be eaten. How organisms accomplish the former and avoid the latter reveals a...

A new study of the genetic history of Sardinia, a Mediterranean island off the western coast of Italy, tells how genetic ancestry on the...