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The Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, was one of Australia's most enigmatic native species. It was the largest marsupial predator to survive until the arrival of...

The quantum superposition principle has been tested on a scale as never before in a new study by scientists at the University of Vienna...

Being good at math relates to better financial and medical outcomes -- unless you don't have confidence in your own abilities with numbers, new...

Science is based on facts that are established by independent observations agreed by everyone. But scientists at Heriot-Watt University's Mostly Quantum Lab have now shown that, in the...

Ventrix, a University of California San Diego spin-off company, has successfully conducted a first-in-human, FDA-approved Phase 1 clinical trial of an injectable hydrogel that...

Cats have a reputation for being aloof and independent. But a study of the way domestic cats respond to their caregivers suggests that their...

EPFL scientists are developing new approaches for improved control of robotic hands -- in particular for amputees -- that combines individual finger control and...

While computers have become smaller and more powerful and supercomputers and parallel computing have become the standard, we are about to hit a wall...

A key question for climate scientists in recent years has been whether the Atlantic Ocean's main circulation system is slowing down, a development that...

Giant, predatory croc-like animals that lived during the Triassic period in southern Africa preyed on early dinosaurs and mammal relatives 210 million years ago....

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have disproved the prevailing theory of how DNA binds itself. It is not, as is generally believed,...