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A puzzling new study finds that ants possess a higher collective intelligence than humans.

Researchers from Europe examined dinosaur feces to help explain how the dinosaur dynasty arose.

A group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley has mapped out the evolution of Neanderthal DNA over the last 40,000 years

MIT scientists develop a piezoelectric fiber actuator that can be incorporated with different fabrics to create active noise cancelling and emission.

Researchers at ETH Zurich are redefining the cocoa value chain through the development of innovative whole-fruit chocolate formulations.

A team of scientists demonstrates that a molecule found in lizard saliva can be used to better detect benign pancreatic tumors called insulinomas.

By studying our closest single-celled relatives, scientists find that proteins important for stem cell pluripotency existed before the evolutionary jump to multicellularity.

Chemists are using a protein that absorbs light to speed up the breaking of carbon-fluorine bonds, which are present in many harmful chemicals.

In 79 AD, Mount Vesuvius violently erupted and buried the city of Pompeii under ash, preserving the city and many of the volcano’s victims. In the 1700s, when archaeologists discovered the ruins at Pompeii, they filled empty cavities left by the…

The 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to John J. Hopfield (Professor at Princeton University) and Geoffrey E. Hinton (University of Toronto) ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.’