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Speak to many dog owners and they will tell you that their once perfectly behaved puppy started to become "difficult" at around six to 12 months of age. There are articles all over the internet that advise owners on how to ...

The island of Yap in Micronesia is known for its stone money called Rai. The natives carved disks of limestone up to 4 meters (13 feet) in diameter at nearby islands and precariously transported them home. The stones were ...

The more researchers know about how the coronavirus attaches, invades and hijacks human cells, the more effective the search for drugs to fight it. That was the idea my colleagues and I hoped to be true when we began building ...

For major earthquakes, the satellite predictions work. They give us enough warning, for example, to be able to stop a surgery safely before the shaking starts. A few seconds are critical in some situations. But to predict ...

Biological systems can actively sense and adjust their mechanical response to changes in their environment.

Skin is the largest organ of the human body. It conveys a lot of information, including temperature, pressure, pleasure and pain. Electronic skin (e-skin) mimics the properties of biological skin. Recently developed e-skins ...

Secure communication is an important and challenging topic for global digital data exchange and ensures the interaction of Internet of Things devices as well as private messaging between two parties. Parallel to the efforts ...

Social media posts and news reports are rich sources of data about people's attitudes and behaviors. Using artificial intelligence techniques, it's possible to sift through billions of words to discern trends in a population's ...

After I found my first peacock spider in the wild in 2016, I was hooked. Three years later, I was traveling across Australia on a month-long expedition to document and name new species of peacock spiders.

The study of layered materials is a popular scientific topic, especially since the 2010 Nobel prize in physics was awarded to producers of graphene, a two-dimensional material composed of carbon atoms obtained from the layered ...

In late summer last year my doctor prescribed a monthlong course of antibiotics for an infection. Medicines like antibiotics are great at wiping out bacterial infections. The problems is that these drugs don't differentiate ...

City planners and residents are usually enthusiastic about parks in cities—they beautify cities and increase quality of life.