Synesthesia is an extraordinary phenomenon where a sensation in one of the senses, such as hearing, triggers a sensation in another, such as taste.
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Babies only hours old are able to differentiate between sounds from their native language and a foreign language, scientists have discovered. The study indicates that babies begin absorbing language while still in the womb, earlier than previously thought.
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Dr. Ganesh Raj, left, Dr. Amy Li, and colleagues have identified a molecule that shuts down estrogen-sensitive breast cancer in a new way.
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UT Southwestern Simmons Cancer Center researchers have shown that a first-in-class molecule can prevent breast...
Sit on Disney Research's Magic Bench and you may have an elephant hand you a glowing orb. Or you might get rained on. Or a tiny donkey might saunter by and kick the bench. It's a combined augmented and...
The researchers assessed plants growing at different elevations in the same areas surveyed by botanists 50 years ago.
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Comparing plant communities today with a survey taken 50 years ago, a UA-led research team is providing the first on-the-ground...
Left: the rigid top fractures on landing, while the top made of nine layers going from rigid to flexible remains intact.
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Engineers at Harvard University and the University of California, San Diego, have...
This is the fossil of Saurichthys, a top predator among the Triassic fishes.
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Some 252 million years ago the largest extinction event occurred at the end of the Permian age. It wiped out almost 90 percent of all...
A boy and his dog.
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Dogs' ability to communicate and interact with humans is one the most astonishing differences between them and their wild cousins, wolves. A new study published today in the journal Science...
Grey squirrel (stock image).
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Squirrels can remember problem-solving techniques for long periods and can apply them to new situations, researchers have discovered.
University of Exeter scientists found grey squirrels quickly remembered how to solve a problem...
Spider web.
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A team of architects and chemists from the University of Cambridge has designed super-stretchy and strong fibres which are almost entirely composed of water, and could be used to make textiles, sensors and other...
Aerial view of the Great Barrier Reef.
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Researchers from James Cook University and the Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium say unprecedented oceanographic conditions in 2016 produced the perfect storm of factors that lead to a...
