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A white fleck of plastic is engulfed by a coral polyp. New research finds the non-nutritive food may simply 'taste good' to the corals. Credit:...

Professor Robin Allaby. Credit: University of Warwick Professor Robin Allaby, in Warwick's School of Life Sciences, has discovered that human crop gathering was so extensive, as...

Canada geese at a rail yard in Chicago. Credit: Mike Ward It's open season for Canada geese in Illinois from mid-October to mid-January. Unfortunately for hunters,...

Scientists are examining DNA sequences we have inherited from Neanderthals. (stock image) Credit: © procy_ab / Fotolia When the ancestors of modern humans migrated out of...

A UC San Diego study links online social interactions to longevity. Credit: © Monkey Business / Fotolia Is social media good for you, or bad? Well,...

This is a computer graphic showing the kind of tight network of flux tubes that the physicists propose may have filled the early universe. Credit:...

PPPL physicist Michael Churchill. Credit: Elle Starkman To fuse hydrogen atoms into helium, doughnut-shaped devices called tokamaks must maintain the heat of the ultrahot plasma they...

The 2.5-D RetroShape -- a smart watch with a shape-deforming back -- is among Dartmouth's offerings at UIST 2017. Credit: © Da-Yuan Huang A watch that...

The Marius Hills Skylight, as observed by the Japanese SELENE/Kaguya research team. Credit: NASA/Goddard/Arizona State University A study published in Geophysical Research Letters confirms the existence...

Data center (stock image). Credit: © cookiecutter / Fotolia Slow internet speeds and the Internet 'rush hour' -- the peak time when data speeds drop by...

Metal droplets leave no thin layer of oxide skin on the surface, if this oxide skin is dissolved in an alkali base or acid. Credit:...