Scientists who studied whether painting a cow with stripes reduces fly bites and which pizza toppings various lizards prefer were among the winners of the 2025 Ig Nobel awards.

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After years of planning, Florida is finally getting a new 146,000-square-foot $130 million aquarium on October 8, 2025 with exhibits, research labs, and more.

Ahead of the AI Horizons Summit, which brings together researchers, innovators and entrepreneurs, Barbara Shinn-Cunningham, ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome’s first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...

Exoplanets are worlds outside our solar system. Just over three decades ago, the first exoplanets were confirmed by Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. Now, with the aid of Nasa spacecraft and ...

Dean George Q. Daley describes challenges and opportunities ahead for Harvard Medical School, academic research ...

Scientists discovered "dark oxygen" produced by deep-sea polymetallic nodules deep below sea level, redefining our ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Scientists have discovered prehistoric insects preserved in amber for the first time in South America, providing a fresh glimpse into life on Earth at a time when flowering plants ...

The discovery in Ecuador of multiple pieces of insect-bearing amber —112 millions of years old—has opened a window to the secrets of a prehistoric forest. At this time, during the Cretaceous era, ...

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