As the authors highlight, the failure rates of these methods vary widely, from two to 23 in every 100 women in the first year ...

Stephen has a science degree with a major in physics, an arts degree with majors in English Literature and History and ...

A fter centuries of rumor and speculation, archaeologists have finally confirmed the existence of a colossal underground ...

B. vaderi is part of the genus of giant isopods called Bathynomus, a group that can reach over 30 centimeters in length and ...

N early 162 years ago, a visionary predicted the evolution of machines and the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) with ...

At the center of almost every galaxy, there is a supermassive black hole. Well, astronomers think it’s every galaxy, but it ...

According to the calculations, the likely object was a white dwarf about 10 percent the mass of the Sun. It was moving about ...

D elicately detailed tattoos have been discovered etched onto the bodies of 1,200-year-old mummies uncovered in Peru.

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Though a strange result, it's not entirely out of the realms of possibility. Some animals, generally smaller than cows and deer, have been shown to have magnetoreception, or the ability to perceive ...

Due to the large number of positively charged protons within a gold nucleus, negatively charged electrons on the innermost shells are pulled in closer to the nucleus, more than they are in silver.