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In 1944, Neal Miller harnessed hungry rats in a runway and watched them pull harder…

Olive oil flavoured with oregano was recovered from clay jars sealed inside a Greek…

In 1872, Charles Darwin catalogued the facial muscles of suppressed rage

For 400 years, sailors crossing parts of the Indian Ocean have reported patches of sea…

Two marsupial species once known to science only from fossils, and thought lost for…

A Cambridge neuroscientist argues your brain fears not knowing more than it fears pain…

A molecule called MHC I was understood for decades as the thing that lets the immune…

Darwin's bark spider spins the toughest biological material yet measured, a silk more…

At its birth, Earth had no Moon. Then something perhaps the size of Mars slammed into…

Between 2006 and 2014, a NASA balloon experiment floating above Antarctica picked up…
