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Dimas Ramadhan, the virtual automotive artist behind the "Digimods DESIGN" channel on YouTube, has taken up the task of ...

Ending a year in which it celebrated its fifth birthday, the Innovative Optical and Wireless Network project releases details ...

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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

"The Giant Leap," by astrobiologist Caleb Scharf, is an optimistic account of our widening journey into the cosmos.

Emily Kwong and Berly McCoy of NPR's Short Wave talk about why swearing might improve physical performance, how birds' bills changed during the pandemic and why scientists are sampling whale breath.

A major evolutionary theory says most genetic changes don’t really matter, but new evidence suggests that’s not true. Researchers found that helpful mutations happen surprisingly often. The twist is ...

A variety of studies are showing that rough-and-tumble play is important for animals and kids alike.

A study by Kristin Winchell (NYU) sequenced the genomes of these reptiles and found 93 specific genes related to limb and skin development that had diverged from forest populations. The city lizards ...

Ph.D. candidate Yuchen Lian (LIACS) wants to understand why human languages look the way they do—and find inspiration to ...

Software supply chain attacks are evolving as open source and AI-generated code introduce new third-party risks. Learn how visibility and shift-left security reduce exposure.