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What’s lurking in and around the rainforest canopy? That’s a hard question to answer, especially in tall and dense forests. Traditional tracking methods, like camera traps, often miss out on elusive ...

An Australian woman who thought her Jewish family members had been lost in the Holocaust over 80 years ago says she feels ...

The woman's skull was discovered in 1985 by two boys snorkeling for glass bottles in Winneconne. No other remains have been ...

Lipstick vines get their name from their bright red, tube-shaped flowers. But one member of this group of plants has lost its lipstick-like appearance— its flowers are shorter, wider, and yellowish ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

In the early 1990s, Keith Willmott and a friend, both undergraduate students from the United Kingdom, arrived in Ecuador with ...

Researcher Steve Horvath speaks about his pioneering invention and what he thinks might be possible for human life extension ...

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The founder of India’s largest Mexican food chain on why he refused to Indianise his menu, how 400 farmers found him on ...