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Professor Martin Wikelski attaches accelerometers to the collars of farm animals. Copyright: Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior

Do Animals Have a 'Sixth Sense' About Earthquakes? The Experiment

It is often said that animals behave unusually before an earthquake.

North-Pest Red Army Hospital, in use from 1945 to 1991. Credit: Wikipedia

Communism's Terrible Legacy In Public Health Still Evident 30 Years After German Reunification

Thirty years after the U.S.S.R. collapsed we are still learning about the ramifications of overarching government control of essential services.

Illustration of a tetraquark composed of two charm quarks and two charm antiquarks, detected for the first time by the LHCb collaboration at CERN / Illustration d'un tétraquark composé de deux quarks c et de deux antiquarks c, observé pour la première fois par la collaboration LHCb au CERN (Image: CERN)

Tetraquark: New Four-Quark Particle Discovered At LHC

The complex ways in which quarks bind themselves into composite particles such as the protons and neutrons found inside atomic nuclei are not yet understood so the discovery of a four-quark particl

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Sorry Science, By High School 4X As Many Women As Men Want To Enter Medical Fields Instead
Spooky Music Action At A Distance: A Human Musician Communicates Directly With A Quantum Computer
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Global Warming Reversed 6,500 Years Of Cooling
Blatant Opportunism: EDC Believers Exploiting Covid-19 Pandemic Further Erodes Trust In Science And Health Efforts

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Components of a low-mass dark matter detector now in development. Credit: Marilyn Chung/Berkeley Lab

WIMPs - the search for dark matter is expanding. And going small.

Dark matter is abundant in the universe, and even though we can't detect it is by far the most common form of matter, making up about 85 percent of the universe's total.

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Popular French grapes Syrah and Pinot Noir genetically traced back 2000 years

Using a genetic database of modern grapevines, researchers were able to test and compare 28 archaeological seeds from Fr