Something strange happens to water as it moves through the stems of horsetail plants – and this unique process provides valuable clues for understanding past and present ecosystems ...

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A set of breakthroughs from scientists at the Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) is ...

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A 55-year-old man presents with alien hand syndrome, his left hand involuntarily opposing every action of his right after an acute splenium stroke.

Tate Britain is currently offering two exhibitions for the price of one. Other than being on the same bill, Edward Burra and Ithell Colquhoun having nothing in common other than being born a year ...

But a weird group of boronias has puzzled botanists for decades. They have closed flowers that thwart most insect visitors.

The bedroom of 74-year-old Cherifa Attia smells like burnt rubber. The vast phosphate processing plant beside her home has been belching out toxic fumes into the atmosphere, blighting this Tunisian ...

Cuban native Aroldis Chapman is considering taking part in the 2026 World Baseball Classic, potentially for a very surprising country. The Boston Red Sox reliever told Alejandro Rodriguez of ...

An Italian court on Thursday sentenced executives at a chemical plant to jail terms of up to 17 years for polluting water used by hundreds of thousands of people with PFAS, or "forever chemicals ...