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From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish...

The jewels nabbed in the Louvre heist may still be at large, but scientists have just closed...

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting. The birds exhale with each strike, much like...

Jacob, outfitted with a tracking collar, lost his left hind leg in a poacher’s snare Alex Braczkowski...

Streams of liquid form drops thanks to unidentified disturbances. It could be the jiggling of individual molecules....

An Amur tiger, also known as a Siberian tiger, tests the waters in Russia Tamim Ridlo/Shutterstock Tigers Between EmpiresJonathan C. Slaght,...

The Roman road network mapped by Itiner-e Itiner-e A comprehensive new map of Roman roads has boosted...

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When it comes to understanding the ups and downs of liberal democracy, conventional research looks at drivers...

“We are composed not only of human cells and microbes but also fragments of others…” Lois Fordham/Millennium...