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As many as one in eight elite athletes may develop post-traumatic stress disorder after experiencing or witnessing severe injury, yet the condition is rarely treated. ...read more

Finding meteorites after they shoot across the night sky is notoriously difficult. Now astronomers have done it for the first time using drones and machine vision algorithms. ...read more

You don’t need to be a scientist — or a citizen, for that matter — to be a great citizen scientist! Here’s what citizen science is, why it matters and how to get started. ...read more

What lies at the center of a satisfying chat? A team of scientists are working to quantify what drives our social connections. ...read more

Astacus astacus is battling invasive species from one side and plague from the other. Researchers ran the numbers to predict which will come out on top. ...read more

Waving your hands around may increase your language abilities in some ways ...read more

The first case of deer-to-human transmission has been found. Does that mean another COVID-19 variant is coming? ...read more

Much of the region around Chernobyl has been untouched by people since the nuclear disaster in 1986. ...read more

From using tools to showcasing emotional intelligence, these five animals are among the world's smartest. ...read more