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A study in the journal Science argues that homing pigeons may read Earth's magnetic field using iron-rich cells in their livers, rather than their beaks or eyes. Researchers wiped out ...

Quanta's "The Dirt That Refused To Die" follows a French lab that sterilized soil with gamma radiation, sealed it in jars, and watched it keep breathing -- taking in oxygen ...

Over the long weekend, a storage tank of methyl methacrylate in Garden Grove, California, started to warm up -- and as the chemist Derek Lowe lays out in a post ...

Last April, a powerful spring snowstorm swept across parts of the Alps, triggering dangerous avalanche conditions in multiple regions. In some areas, avalanche danger reached Level 4-5 on Europe's standard ...

This weekend's Blue Moon, the second full moon in one month, is also a micromoon, because it is at the moon's apogee, the furthest point from Earth in its orbit.

Researchers at Kyoto University Hospital have begun the first human trial of TRG-035, a drug meant to grow new teeth in people who are missing them. Humans keep a set ...

A team spread across Washington University in St Louis, the Indian Institute of Science, Heidelberg University, Johns Hopkins, and UC Santa Cruz built a computer to solve the kind of ...

Vivianite is the most goth crystal on Earth. This beautiful mineral forms in places rich in decaying organic matter, such as ancient graves, old bones, peat bogs, and even submerged ...

Cows are social animals and have cow best friends, but new research shows that they can also recognize and differentiate human faces. Cows have been domesticated for over 10,000 years,

An examination of fossils found decades ago revealed a new species of T. Rex. This T. Rex swam in the ocean but was undoubtedly as terrifying as its terrestrial namesake.