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For decades, Hong Kong has been one of just two cities in China allowed to mark the bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square In 1989, hundreds of thousands of protesters gathered in the square calling for…

Researchers in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences have developed a robotic mechanism for mushroom picking and trimming and demonstrated its effectiveness for the automated harvesting of button mushrooms. In a new study, the…

by Casey McGrath, SMBE journals (Molecular Biology and Evolution and Genome Biology and Evolution)…

Mexico announced Tuesday that a clinical review of past deaths has led officials to raise the country’s confirmed COVID-19 death toll by 4,272, to a total of 227,840. The adjustment was carried out by teams of doctors and is largely one of…

Dark 'eyeliner' feathers of peregrine falcons act as sun shields to improve the birds' hunting ability, a new scientific study suggests. Scientists have long speculated that falcons' eye markings improve their ability to target fast-moving…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the early days of COVID-19 vaccine development, a new social media platform provided a place for like-minded people to discuss vaccines, share…

Retired four-star General Barry McCaffrey says Michael Flynn “has a mental health problem” after he endorsed the idea of a Myanmar-style military coup in the US.Donald Trump’s former National Security Adviser has come under fire for telling…

By delivering small electrical pulses directly to the brain, deep brain stimulation (DBS) can ease tremors associated with Parkinson's disease or help relieve chronic pain. The technique works well for many patients, but researchers would…

The dark malar stripe directly beneath the peregrine falcon's eyes likely reduce sunlight glare, an evolutionary trait mimicked by some top athletes who smear dark makeup below their eyes to help…

On 7 May Jasmine Hartin looked on proudly as her partner and the father of their children, Andrew Ashcroft, unveiled his new luxury hotel on the Belize island of San Pedro.The Canadian socialite, who is in her 30s, was pictured in a video…