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Scientists from Simon Fraser University and the University of British Columbia in Canada were investigating river erosion.

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Inside the nasal cavity, special cells called olfactory sensory neurons (OSNs) may play a key role. While OSNs detect ...

Quantum computers are supposed to have abilities far beyond conventional ones, but verifying that they actually do is ...

People who were prescribed statin treatment early (less than a year after the initial type 2 diabetes diagnosis) had a 15 ...

"There seems to be an urgent need to educate both patients and the general public about the seriousness of gout and the ...

The researchers found that warmer seas might not necessarily mean squid proliferate as a direct result of overfishing or ...

For nearly five centuries, the Krasheninnikov volcano in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula had not erupted. Nor did it seem ...

In a surprisingly common disorder known as trichotillomania, people compulsively pull out their own hair as a way of ...