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A scandal involving allegedly enlarged ski suits ahead of this year’s Winter Olympics has highlighted the intriguing physics behind ski jumps

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain signal that separates the words

Three species of Red Sea fish appear to rely on special “hybrid” retina cells to see in dim environments

Maize farmers in Peru’s Chincha Valley were fertilizing their crops with seabird poop as early as the year 1250

BlueBird 6 features the biggest commercial communications array antenna ever deployed in orbit around Earth, spanning some 2,400 square feet

A new study finds a variety of hair extensions—from natural to synthetic—contain chemicals associated with cancer, birth defects and reproductive issues

There’s more to Winter Olympians’ diets than calories—but for some, there are also lots and lots of calories

The U.S.’s drug safety agency declined to review a next-gen flu vaccine that uses the same tech as the coronavirus shots

A new tool expands the ways people can prove they’ve solved a problem without revealing the solution

How a Russian dialect coach helped Heated Rivalry star Connor Storrie master challenging Russian sounds and build a believable accent

The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S. government health agencies

An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning