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Although they are technically gas giants, Uranus and Neptune are referred to as "ice giants" due to their composition.

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Scientists have used a specially engineered virus to help track the brain changes caused by psilocybin in mice, revealing how the drug could be breaking loops of depressive thinking.

Death Valley, part of the Mojave Desert stretching across California and Nevada, is known for its extreme weather – but in ...

Blazing colors and enticing scents may be showy, but they're just one part of the toolkit plants use to lure in pollinators.

A plague that swept through Eurasia for 2,000 years – millennia before the Black Death of the Middle Ages – has only ever ...

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Despite the rapid advances in artificial intelligence in recent years, the humble human brain still has the edge over ...

The discovery of a Viking-age burial in Trøndelag, Norway, has presented archaeologists with a historical mystery.

Sleep is central to the proper functioning of the immune system, which in turn has implications for mental and physical ...

The map is called the GlobalBuildingAtlas, and you can access it online now. Compared to previous databases of this type, ...