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When a person gets into art and drawing, it often starts as fun doodling and playing around. However, most eventually reach a ...

With the aid of physical forces—in this case, sound—it is possible to actively steer the formation of engineered tissue. For ...

One of the most powerful voices in rap news belongs to someone you'll never see. We tracked down the anonymous man behind ...

A moth caterpillar identified by the agribusiness sector as one of the most destructive pests of soybean, cotton and corn crops may harbor fungi and bacteria in its gut that can degrade expanded ...

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A pattern as familiar as hair may hold clues to one of biology’s deeper mysteries. The way hair follicles arrange themselves ...

A disturbing new trend is spiraling out of control in youth athletics. Sports-crazed parents are holding their child back a ...

An international research team led by scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Bremen and the ...

Our geometric intuition, long considered something that sets us apart, seems to be shared with other primates.

An international research team led by Dr. Frank Bosmans (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) has discovered a major genetic cause of ...

A new book posits that physical space, rather than policy, is the primary constraint for urban transport. I speak to the authors to learn more.