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Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

First, let’s clear something up about recent reports of a live cockroach pulled from a woman’s skull. It was technically in her skull, between her eyes—but if you stick your little finger in your ear, ...

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On a fine spring day during his honeymoon, Thomas Elliott Snyder suddenly dashed into a hardware store in Charleston, S.C., bought a hatchet and scurried out again. Then, while popeyed passers-by ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...