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However, the most recent definition of long COVID in the US, proposed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and ...

To test the theory, the study authors examined ethnographic reports from 60 cultures around the world. Summing up their ...

What fish have instead of a tongue is something called a basihyal, a bony slab sitting on the floor of the mouth that looks a ...

A parasitic worm that can burrow into the skin may help inspire the next generation of painkillers, potentially providing a ...

D o dolphins and whales actually play together, or are the dolphins just harassing the whales? Researchers sought to answer this question by looking through hundreds of photographs and video clips in ...

With the restraints placed upon them by physics, sci-fi writers have imagined "generational ships" for decades. The idea is pretty simple: creating a ship that will sustain a small society of humans ...

“Instead of having this sizable metal structure to receive the signal, we now can use this small glass cell of atoms that can be about a centimeter in size,” co-author Matthew Simons, from the ...

If and when completed, it will be significantly longer than that of the world’s current longest suspension bridge, the 2,023-meter (6,637-foot) long 1915 Çanakkale Bridge that connects the European ...

Yawning is seen in a diverse range of animal species, both those that live on land and underwater, but do all animals yawn? We wanted to know, too.

The good-ish news for any water-loving arachnophobes out there is that diving bell spiders are at least quite small, measuring between 8 to 15 millimeters (0.3 to 0.6 inches) in length, so could be ...

For a croc, it seems “surf’s up” is within an hour of the tide changing, as this was the window during which they would begin ...