Close your eyes and imagine a sound, someone’s voice, coming from your left. It slowly shifts to come from behind...

A molecule in lizard saliva may make it easier to find certain tumors in the pancreas. Insulinomas — benign tumors...

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A virus that caused a large outbreak in Brazil this year can spread from a pregnant woman to the fetus....

acidic: An adjective for materials that contain acid. Acidic materials often are capable of dissolving away some minerals such as...

application: A particular use or function of something. atom: The basic unit of a chemical element. Atoms are made up...

A new study hints at how skateboarders can up their half-pipe game — using math. Tricks like kickflips and ollies...

DENVER — A drug found in almost every medicine cabinet may be a treatment for a rare genetic disease. Ibuprofen...

beetle: An order of insects known as Coleoptera, containing at least 350,000 different species. Adults tend to have hard and/or...

Some 6,500 light-years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tendrils of hot sulfur. Nobody knows how those...