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Platypus swims in murky water; its distinctive flat bill and webbed feet are visible as it glides smoothly.

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Experiments hint that quantum mechanisms are vital to the machinery of life. Now researchers are exploring if these effects help to explain the success of an array of puzzling health treatments ...

Social media hype about the vagus nerve tends to be oversimplified. The truth is more complex — and more interesting.

The Activism That Cannot Hear Palestinians. The contemporary Western activist often does not hear Palestinians first. He ...