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Antechinus: The tiny marsupials where males have sex until...
All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure,...
3 remarkable spiders: A vegetarian, a vampire and a predator...
In this extract from "The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World's Spiders," author Ximena Nelson examines three species...
When was steel invented?
No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and...
Science news this week: Spiders on Mars and an ancient...
Sept. 21, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained...
Humans have long been a 'geophysical force on a planetary...
The person dubbed "the prophet of the Anthropocene" talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means,...
Men have a daily hormone cycle — and it's synced to their...
A month-long study of a man's brain revealed that its volume consistently shrunk over the course of each day and then reset overnight.
Ancient civilizations knew how to keep cool in deadly heat....
Builders knew how to keep people cool in hot, dry climates thousands of years ago. It's time to get that knowledge back.
Drinking wastewater, building an island from scratch and...
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world's urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons...
