Scientists have suggested that dreams sometimes act as portals to alternate realities, connecting a person to another version of themselves in a parallel world. “Dreams have been historically ...

Here’s how it works. Scientists have demonstrated a new humanoid robot that can run at a top speed of just over 8 miles per hour (mph) — or 3.6 meters per second (m/s) to be exact. This makes ...

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University of Virginia School of Medicine scientists and collaborators at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Germany discovered a never-before-seen adaptation that allows yeast cells to go ...

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US scientists did not intend to harm pandas when they worked with researchers in China in the late 1990s and early 2000s, the investigation noted. They believed they were saving the species ...

Marie Curie, born more than 150 years ago, is still the only female scientist many people can name. The double Nobel Prize winner is most famous for her discovery of radioactivity, as well as the ...

Please verify your email address. Fans create charming artwork of elderly couple George and Evelyn, depicting the sweethearts at the Stardew Valley Flower Dance. Community members appreciate the ...

In theory, scientists know that a species with high enough genetic variation can adapt more rapidly to change. However, few studies aimed to experiment with evolution over time in the wild.

NOAA researcher Peter Dodge died at age 73 after suffering a stroke in 2023. In a special tribute to late hurricane scientist Peter Dodge, meteorologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The benchmark, called MLE-bench, challenges AI systems with 75 real-world data science competitions from Kaggle, a popular platform for machine learning contests. This benchmark emerges as tech ...

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