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'It gave me goosebumps': Most powerful gamma ray burst...
Scientists have found a mysterious signal in the brightest gamma ray burst ever detected, and now they know what caused it.
12 game-changing moments in the history of AI
From Alan Turing's seminal paper to the advent of ChatGPT, here are 12 pivotal moments in the history of artificial intelligence.
These bacteria trigger a sex change in wasps — scientists...
Scientists have uncovered how bacteria borrowed a gene from an insect to create female-only parasitic wasp populations, eliminating...
Spectacularly rare fossils of snakes that died huddled...
Three fossilized snakes that died huddled together 38 million years ago are now called the "winter serpents."
'Brain-eating' amoebas kill nearly 100% of victims. Could...
Doctors are pulling out new techniques and drugs in an effort to cure devastating brain infections.
This is what it's like to treat a 'brain-eating' amoeba...
A now-retired doctor in Texas describes his experience treating a child with a brain-eating amoeba infection.
'Brain-eating' infections could become more common, scientists...
Researchers think climate change will soon cause an increase in the incidence of Naegleria fowleri infections, a "brain-eating" disease.
Can you get a brain-eating amoeba from tap water?
In the U.S., tap water is generally safe and not a likely source of brain-eating-amoeba infections, experts told Live Science.
