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We bring you an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at this iconic mission with Dr Linda Spilker, from her first job out of ...

This result really changes the way I think about long term memory storage,” senior author Dr Daniel Dombeck told IFLScience.

O n April 29, 2017 a thin, dehydrated, and distressed orangutan was rescued after being captured and caged within Indonesian Borneo. While this is unfortunately not an unusual occurrence, the ...

In actuality, the peak mechanical power output of a horse is well over 12 horsepower. That figure comes from a duo of scientists who published a paper in the journal Nature way back in 1993, based on ...

The mammal in question is the Falkland Islands wolf ( Dusicyon australis ), the first canid known to have been driven to ...

The rare finding was made by a team at Cambridge University’s Fitzwilliam Museum, in the UK, who uncovered the surprisingly ...

The research, supported by the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, shows that even an experiment with a clear mission in ...

For any Gen Zers in the audience, a filing cabinet is an archaic piece of office furniture that was used by your ancestors in ...

There’s a good chance it’s currently pumping around your blood this very second. TFA belongs to a class known as per- and ...

James is a published author with four pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange science, ...

It all boils down to the apparent brightness of an object, or in astronomical parlance, its apparent magnitude. There are ...