A scandal involving allegedly enlarged ski suits ahead of this year’s Winter Olympics has highlighted the intriguing physics ...

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Why does the same virus barely faze one person while sending another to the hospital? New research shows the answer lies in a molecular record etched into our immune cells by both our genes and our ...

Modern armor systems do not do a good enough job of protecting humans from blast-induced neurotrauma (brain and eye damage). To improve them, we may have to look to nature. In particular, a tiny ...

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words ...

In the Congo Basin, habituating gorillas to the presence of humans helps the species survive, creates local job opportunities ...

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The U.K., France, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands say European lab tests confirmed epibatidine in his body. They say the toxin does not occur naturally in Russia.

We know the main reason that the age of the dinosaurs came to an end: an asteroid impact on the Yucatán Peninsula some 66 million years ago. But how the dinosaurs’ reign began is far less clear—and ...

Figure skating made its official Olympic debut at the 1908 Summer Games in London. The event made its first Winter Olympics appearance during the 1924 Games in Chamonix, France. Celebrate the Olympics ...

Alexa+ is a generative-AI-powered virtual assistant. It responds with a more natural cadence, handles multiple prompts within a single query, and generates content rather than providing canned answers ...