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Good luck getting a quartz crystal back from a chimpanzee. Researchers at Spain's Rainfer Fundación Chimpatia near Madrid handed crystals to two groups of rescued chimps and quickly discovered the hard part wasn't the science -- it was the ...

In 2010, a mysterious emissary took 29-year-old MIT computer scientist Scott Aaronson to lunch and pitched him on funding for DNA cryptography research. Instead of Googling the benefactor, Aaronson asked his mother. She emailed back: "Be careful not ...

Trawling through academic archives can be an absolute drag: I've spent weeks up to my neck in old books, microfiche, loose paperwork, and scanned documents looking for a useful tidbit but coming up with bupkis. But every now and then, the digging ...

Unfortunately, the consumption of raw milk is on the rise, especially among the Make America Health Again (MAHA) crowd, despite the fact that food safety experts like Dr. Marion Nestle, NYU's Paulette Goddard professor emerita of nutrition, food ...

The Fermi Paradox describes a contradiction: stars and planets are abundant, but there is no obvious evidence of life beyond our solar system. The Drake equation presented a method for calculating the number of active civilizations there should be,

Keith Scholey and Alastair Fothergill, producers behind Our Planet, Planet Earth, and The Blue Planet, made a four-part Netflix documentary about The Dinosaurs (including Ankylosaurus) and it premieres March 8. Here's the trailer, devouring YouTube ...

The U.S. War Department made this training film in 1944 to explain frequency modulation to soldiers, and it opens with the perfect sales pitch: two GIs playing ping pong while listening to the radio. A third man fires up an electric razor, and the AM ...

Every commuter on every train in every city is running the same miscalculation. They assume sitting in silence will be more pleasant than talking to the person next to them. They are wrong, and psychologists have been proving it for over a decade. --

New research finds that baby dinosaurs were the Mesozoic equivalent of Gen X -- kicked out of the nest to go play with their friends. A paper published in the Italian Journal of Geosciences found that juvenile dinosaurs, unlike mammals and many of ...

A report in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery proposes using a microsurgical technique called lymphovenous anastomosis (LVA) to help clear the toxic proteins that build up in Alzheimer's patients' brains. According to the study, it's a plumbing ...