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When the quark hypothesis was first proposed more than 10 years ago, there were supposed to be three kinds of quark. The ...

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

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A violent storm swept across southern Germany some 150 million years ago, lifting two immature pterosaurs high above the ground like leaves. The fragile reptiles, just born or newly weaned, swirled ...

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And cultures all around the world have different categories of what is and isn’t breakfast food. The Wikipedia page for ...

The Owensboro Museum of Science and History will host a special symposium, Civil War Guerrillas in Kentucky, at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 20, at the museum, 122 E. Second St.

Astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi hosts Particles of Thought, a new science podcast with leading experts on space, biology and discovery from GBH and the producers of NOVA.

The age-old question of the chicken or the egg is explored through evolutionary biology. Eggs, as membrane-bound containers ...

James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, strange ...