One afternoon on the coast of Hokkaido, a small rubber duck bobbed in the waves, anchored to a seaside rock. It wasn’t ...

The UK government is putting the onus on citizens to fix a problem driven by decades of systemic neglect. The real culprits ...

The improvement happened swiftly. In 2017, Denmark started offering an HPV vaccine covering 4 strains. Before the vaccination ...

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The marriage of cutting-edge technology with traditional pastimes often stirs excitement -- but "drone fishing" was not on ...

“These weren’t modest differences,” said Adam D. Gordon, an anthropologist at the University at Albany and lead author of the ...

Chemicals may be turning female birds into males in the wild and the phenomenon might be more common than we think.

A new study from researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand suggests that people who deliberately choose a ...

Now, researchers at University College London and their collaborators have engineered a new class of indoor solar cell that ...

It’s not uncommon for scientists to find the occasional oddity in the middle of the North Pacific. But just North of Hawaii, ...

The bone container is a hollowed-out sheep or goat femur intentionally sealed at one end with a birch-bark tar plug. It ...