Новости за 26.10.2017

Imagine eating all of the candy you acquire on Halloween each year in a single night. If you're a bat and winter’s approaching, this challenge is no problem.

The current plague outbreak in Madagascar has killed more than 100 people, and officials say that a centuries-old tradition may increase the risk of further spread, according to news reports.

Maybe intelligent life is widespread throughout the galaxy, but most of it lives in deep, dark subsurface oceans that are cut off from the rest of the cosmos.

Men appear to be more drawn to women who slightly curve their backs, revealing what could be an evolutionary tactic used by females to imply they are willing to mate, a new study from Portugal finds.

Puerto Rico is an archipelago in the Caribbean Sea and an unincorporated U.S. territory.

A small, repaired hole in the painting allowed researchers to confirm the artwork as Nazi loot.

Historians and conspiracy theorists alike are eager for the release.

Here is the science behind 10 Halloween horrors come to life.

Historians and conspiracy theorists alike are eager for the release.

You've likely heard of conscious thought and subconscious thought, but humans may in fact possess three levels of consciousness, a new review suggests — and this concept could help scientists develop truly conscious artificial intelligence (AI) someday.

Legendary musician Fats Domino died this week at age 89, and officials reported his death was due to "natural causes." But what exactly does it mean to die from natural causes?

A "masked" dinosaur that lived 130 million years ago was a master at disguise who could hide even in broad daylight from its predators, relatives of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex, a new study finds.

In cognition tests, clever raccoons demonstrated that they would not hesitate to bend the rules to get their rewards.