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A new study reveals that the Halafian culture of northern Mesopotamia (c. 6200–5500 BCE) produced the earliest systematic ...

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A new study published in Nature Communications details a hybrid robot that combines the wind-driven mobility of tumbleweeds with active quadcopter control, offering a new paradigm for energy-efficient ...

Cell division is essential for the correct transmission of genetic information. Each chromosome within a plant contains a ...

New York State finalized new regulations on December 1 requiring major companies and fuel suppliers to measure and report on ...

American factory workers are some of the most productive and best paid in the world, but that success carries a brutal ...

In an interesting turn of botanical events, University of Houston engineers report that while melatonin keeps us asleep, it ...

After years of false starts and face plants, the mobility industry is gung-ho on self-driving cars again. Some automakers, ...

Computational biology expert Nadia Lanman helps cancer researchers find solutions in massive datasets generated through ...

The number of first-year students at the University of California, San Diego, whose math skills fall below a middle school level has increased nearly 30-fold over the past five years, according to a ...