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In a stark sign of scientists’ escalating frustration with how academic journals operate, researchers are taking on six ...

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In a new study, an international team of neuroscientists led by the University of Vienna has shown that experiencing nature can alleviate acute physical pain. Surprisingly, simply watching nature ...

Charging forward at top speed, a garden snail slimes up 1 millimeter of pavement per second. By this logic, Beckman Institute ...

A study, published Thursday in the journal Science, found that 22% of butterflies in the United States disappeared between ...