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Humpback whales overwintering in feeding areas may sing complex, progressive songs which closely resemble those associated with breeding grounds, according to a study published...

Chemotherapy and radiation are effective cancer treatments because they kill rapidly dividing cells, including tumor cells. But for children—whose tiny bodies are still growing—these...

Water flow through plants is critical to our food supply: without proper water flow, plants cannot carry out photosynthesis, or grow or reliably produce...

A team that includes the scientist who first harnessed the revolutionary CRISPR-Cas9 and other systems for genome editing of eukaryotic organisms, including animals and...

For the first time, a team led by Prof. Jian-Wei Pan and Prof. Bo Zhao at the University of Science and Technology of China,...

The question of how quickly the universe is expanding has been bugging astronomers for almost a century. Different studies keep coming up with different...

The size of children's heads is not only related to the growth of their skull, but also their brain. A genome-wide analysis, published in...

Paleontologists at the University of Chicago have discovered the first detailed fossil of a hagfish, the slimy, eel-like carrion feeders of the ocean. The...

An old thought experiment now appears in a new light. In 1935 Erwin Schrödinger formulated a thought experiment designed to capture the paradoxical nature...

An international research team led by the University of Liverpool and McMaster University has made a significant breakthrough in the search for new states...

Including the powerful ALMA into an array of telescopes for the first time, astronomers have found that the emission from the supermassive black hole...