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With about 30 visual pigments, compared to just three in humans, mantis shrimp possess a visual system that remains a mystery ...

In a discovery that could offer a new way to control quantum properties in two-dimensional materials, researchers at Cornell ...

New research from Michigan State University finds that popular music has gradually become less explicit about emotion and ...

Poor access to health care, limited local influence over research priorities and an unequal distribution of scientific ...

The strong El Niño currently under way in the Pacific Ocean raises the specter of marine heat waves and coral bleaching once ...

Alzheimer's disease is best known for its effects on memory and cognition, but the disease also involves changes in how brain ...

A phenomenon rarer than a solar eclipse and more powerful than any single storm system is unfolding this fall, and NASA is ...

A University of Missouri astronomer is leading a team of 130 researchers from 62 institutions—including NASA, the California ...

Every time a tissue grows or renews itself, cells must divide inside an already crowded environment. That creates a ...

Researchers used the European XFEL to create X-ray flashes that were not only extremely short but also reached record ...

Quantum computers represent a next step in the fast-paced evolution of technology. Using quantum bits (qubits), they have the ...