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Horses can detect fear in humans by smell, becoming more likely to startle and more wary of people who are scared, a new study has found.

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Does string theory—the controversial “theory of everything” from physics—tell us anything about consciousness and the human ...

The completion and handoff of the LEOPARDSat-1 to NASA marks Ohio's first-ever fully student-led mission to space.

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