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Whether it’s the World Series, the FIFA World Cup or the Olympic Games, the hope for hosting mega sporting events is that the economy will emerge as the true winner.

All those thousands of hours that Australians put towards unpaid household work and care—cooking, cleaning and caring for family members—are an essential thread that keeps our economy stitched together.

A Pakistani astronaut will fly to China’s Tiangong space station for a short visit, marking the start of international participation in China’s human spaceflight program.

In the Gulf of California, a pod of orcas known as Moctezuma’s pod has developed a chillingly precise technique for hunting young great white sharks — flipping them upside down to paralyze and extract their nutrient-rich livers. The behavior, filmed…

Public service employees who find their work to be meaningful may be less likely to become emotionally exhausted and burned out, according to new research from the University of Georgia, Ohio State University and Washington University.

Researchers at UC San Diego have figured out how to get bacteria to produce xanthommatin, the pigment that lets octopuses and squids camouflage. By linking the pigment’s production to bacterial survival, they created a self-sustaining system that boosts yields dramatically.…

Good management of aid projects in developing countries reduces violence in those areas—but poorly managed projects increase the chances of local violence, according to a new study by an MIT economist.

The Bwine F7GIM is a lightweight beginner drone that weighs above the 250 g threshold, but it flies well, and the automatic camera is fairly good.

We’ll lose the ISS pretty soon. What might we lose with it?

Scientists uncovered how the amino acid leucine enhances mitochondrial efficiency by preserving crucial proteins that drive energy production. By downregulating the protein SEL1L, leucine prevents unnecessary degradation and strengthens the cell’s power output. The findings link diet directly to mitochondrial…