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The placenta has a unique trick for keeping immune defenses on standby, even when no viral infections threaten a pregnancy.

A recent neurological study provides an unprecedented look at how number sense works in the human brain.

An Icelandic peninsula that hadn't seen any volcanism for 800 years has now awoken. Eruptions could continue for decades or even centuries.

Physics is a rich well of inspiration for mathematicians to draw from.

Using large language models to generate training data for smaller models might be more effective than vacuuming up text from the internet and filtering out the garbage.

Astronomers have long known of rogue worlds - cosmic loners that drift through space, untethered to a star. Now JWST is spotting them in pairs.