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Ice Age teenagers entered puberty at roughly the same age as teens today

Polymer hydrogels interfaced with an electrode array prove capable of 'learning' how to get higher scores.

Researchers say their creation has memory, which it can use to perform better by gaining experience

Built in 1913 as a naval radio station, the Shetland Isles’ Met Office at Lerwick provides the temperature reading you see on the top right-hand corner of the UK weather map. The site became part of the Met Office network in 1921 and began regular meteorological and magnetic recording, which…

It's estimated that more than 53,000 people have fled extreme violence in the Haitian capital Port-au-Prince, which equates to 80 percent of the city's population. Haiti has been without a president since the assassination of Jovenel Moïse in 2021. The country has been ravaged for decades by poverty and natural…

Researchers are calling on amateur astronomers to help photograph the broken tail of a comet on track to pass by Earth this spring.

Researchers from the University of Reading and the Royal Horticultural Society have discovered that gardeners play a vital role in identifying 'future invaders' - ornamental plants that could become invasive species. Read further on Dynamite News:

Archeologists have been left confused by the discovery on the grounds of Fonmon Castle, Cardiff

Has Israel breached international law in Gaza with its military response to Hamas's atrocities? The UN's human rights chief says that both sides have committed war crimes. Volker Turk pointed to Hamas's horrific attacks on October 7, as well as the militant group continuing to hold hostages. But he also…

Last month was hottest October since records began, with average global temperature thought to be 1.7C above late-1800s levels

The brain has the ability to tone down how intensely a harmful stimulus is experienced. This process is how our body allows us to put mind over matter.