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A machine learning algorithm identified the top five flavor notes in 16 types of whiskey. Each matched the aggregate of what a panel of human pros said.

Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, California.

The remains of ancient bronze statues, including sculpted snakes up to 35 inches long, have been found within a hot spring in Italy.

The life-size clay figurines offer new insights into the organization and structure of China’s army 2,000 years ago.

The nonplastic polymer cleaned up eyeliner and permanent marker and broke down into molecules related to sugar and amino acids.

The robot’s flexible arms are a technology demonstration that could one day aid in satellite maintenance and space debris management.

A mountainside in Greenland collapsed catastrophically into the ocean, last year. The landslide triggered a wave as tall as the Statue of Liberty. This wave — a tsunami — swept 80 kilometers (50 miles) down a fjord there. Its rapid…

As fatal familial insomnia progresses, patients completely stop sleeping and enter a coma-like state that results in death within months.

DIY-ers in northern Holland filled a large gap in a tile floor with precisely sliced cow bones several centuries ago.

A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the United States’ first serious case of H5N1 bird flu, following 60 milder cases this year.