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Every year, the Ig Nobel Prize is awarded to ten lucky winners. To qualify, you need to publish research in a peer-reviewed ...

As people turn to AI for therapy and companionship, some say the models still need to learn the nuances of human humor.

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In a lab in Japan, scientists sent more than 125,000 gigabytes of data per second across a distance greater than from New ...

“The threat we’re talking about is unprecedented,” said Professor Vaughn Cooper, a microbiologist at the University of ...

Japan is preparing to stir a sleeping world. The goal isn’t oil or gas — it’s mud. Mud that’s packed with the rare earth ...

Yogurt is made through a delicate partnership between milk and two types of bacteria. Researchers at the Technical University ...

For decades, above-the-knee amputees have had to live with stiff, uncomfortable prosthetics that felt more like rigid tools ...

Participants consistently picked the wrong knot, believing the weakest knots were the strongest. And for many among the few ...

Normally, the immune system kicks off an inflammatory response to clean up damaged tissue and fight off infection. After that ...