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Many aspects of animals that people find beautiful evolved to be attractive to the animals themselves. A new study hints at a common aspect of perception that dates back hundreds of millions of years.

Children learn what it means to be a woman or a man early on. How they respond to threats to how well they conform to gender stereotypes changes with age.

Analyzing 20 million recorded mosquito flight paths revealed the mathematical rules behind how these tiny predators move and zero in on their human targets.

From beetles to sustainable packaging - one failure in the lab led to a new line of promising research.

False claims that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines cause cancer could, ironically, lead to worse cancer outcomes by undermining a promising tool to prevent and treat it.

From World War II to the Apollo era, the space shuttle program and today's privately developed commercial rockets, the landscape of spaceflight has changed dramatically.

Plants changed the atmosphere, built soil and created ecosystems that allowed animals like us to thrive. But first they had to make their way from the water to the land.

The hunt for a mythicized fossil hot spot took a team of researchers on a journey through the Sahara Desert.

People typically die from progressive supranuclear palsy within 7 to 10 years. There is currently no specialized treatment or effective screening for this neurodegenerative disease.

Surveys have found that researchers studying UAPs can face pushback from mentors and colleagues, even from people who think it's an important line of research.