Britain’s Science Museum has argued that the way children’s Lego bricks fit together reinforces gender and sexuality stereotypes. The Science Museum in the United Kingdom has recently made ...

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A landmark study reporting the discovery of Australopithecus africanus one century ago put the African continent at the centre of the story of humanity. Overcrowding can lead to disaster, and yet ...

Feb. 7, 2025 — Researchers have analyzed the soft tissue from a fossilized plesiosaur for the first time. The results show that the long-necked marine reptile had both smooth and scaly skin ...

An arboreal archaeologist roots around the Italian countryside and in centuries-old frescoes for a cornucopia of fruits long forgotten—but still viable to grow and consume Ari Daniel The "Nation ...

Materials science is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the understanding and application of the properties of matter. Materials scientists study the connections between the underlying ...

She has always felt more boyish than girlish. From an early age, E, as she prefers to be called for this story, hated wearing dresses, liked basketball, skateboarding, video games. When we met in ...

This science-informed effort goes beyond protecting marine life -- it uses targeted financial investments to ... Feb. 6, 2025 — New research finds some baleen whale species call at such deep ...

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