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Brain organoids are revolutionising research, but their growing complexity raises unsettling ethical questions.

You don’t have to travel far for this one — we’re diving into the incredible planet you’re standing on right now. Earth is the only known world teeming with life, wrapped in oceans, mountains, forests ...

Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren't the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes they ...

Consciousness should not be deemed as an ‘all-or-nothing’ cognitive function but rather as a graded and multi-dimensional ...

The discovery of strange, ultra-red objects—especially the extreme case known as The Cliff—has pushed astronomers to propose ...

Overview:  Cleaning, sorting, building basic models, and manual reports are being handled in the background. The future role ...

Many grown adults struggle with some of the basic concepts they learned back in fifth grade. It's not that you’re not smart—it’s just that sometimes, life doesn’t require you to remember the specifics ...

Here are 15 supposedly “basic” trivia questions most adults can’t actually answer. Let’s see how many you get right. Many ...

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UC San Diego says it’s struggling to deal with a large and growing number of freshmen whose math skills are below middle-school level, leaving many unprepared to thrive at an institution famed for its ...

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