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Tropical tree-dwellers are the only primates to chat entirely in ultrasonic frequencies

Terrorist attacks provide unique window into whale physiology

Textural phrases light up a touch center in the brain

The European Space Agency (ESA) and its Russian counterpart, Roscosmos, are making plans to...

Researchers in Germany today posted the first high-resolution version of an extinct human's genome...

Hovering objects suggest that future robots could fly like jellyfish

Tiny heat pulses promise new way to flip magnetic memory "bits," could increase speeds hundreds of fold

Genetic evidence suggests that Polynesians may have mingled with pre-Columbian Native Americans

If dealing with the public relations nightmare over its on-off-on funding of Planned Parenthood wasn't enough, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure cancer charity last week also got entangled, somewhat bizarrely, in the debate over human embryonic stem (ES) cell research.

Chirping of ancient katydids reconstructed from fossils

Russia's Antarctic team may have reached Lake Vostok at last. Russian news agency RIA...

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Bruce Kendall says he's proud to call himself "a Jesus man." For the past...

Both suns are 2 billion years older than Earth

A new device may help researchers keep an eye on changing stresses along fault zones

PARIS—French Prime Minister François Fillon today announced that five more conglomerates of universities and...

Legislators in Indiana appear to have fallen short of their goal of injecting creationism...

After years of controversy and more than 20 extensions of the current law, Congress...

Super-dense objects may help stars form

Russian space scientists this week floated the idea of building a new version of...