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A gently lobbed baseball is easy to see. The same ball, however, can seem to vanish from the hand of a skilled pitcher, ...

It was big news years ago when Mars orbiters found streaks of what appeared to be water running down Martian cliffs and ...

Being pregnant in the Viking Age was surely no picnic, but this experience has been largely ignored, in part because there ...

A 115-year-old Surrey woman named Ethel Caterham has officially been handed the title of the oldest living human alive.

Rising seas will severely test humanity's resilience in the second half of the 21st century and beyond, even if nations defy ...

Taurine is an amino acid occurring naturally in the body, and found in energy drinks as well as foods like fish and meat – ...

It's a question that's long been the cause of debate: is it better to shower in the morning or at night? Morning shower ...

Recent observations by JWST of TRAPPIST-1 c ruled out a thick carbon dioxide atmosphere, indicating that the planet is not as ...

On the night of Saturday 17 May, skywatchers across the US as far south as New Mexico were treated to a peculiar sight: a ...

US surgeons successfully performed the world's first human bladder transplant on 4 May 2025. The complicated, eight-hour ...

On Jicarón Island, white-faced capuchin monkeys ( Cebus capucinus imitator) rule, unmolested by predators. In their peace, ...