Notoriously difficult entrance exam is regarded as gateway to economic security and even a good marriage The chief organiser of South Korea’s notoriously gruelling university entrance exams has ...

A new medical device coming the United States could be a game-changer for some women's health procedures, such as IUD insertion. Carevix is the world’s first suction-based cervical stabilizer, ...

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It’s a regrettable reality that there is never enough time to cover all the interesting scientific stories we come across each month. In the past, we’ve featured year-end roundups of cool science ...

To say spotted ratfish are unusual is an understatement. Related to sharks, they abound in the inky dark depths of the Puget Sound. Armed with a venomous fin, they swim gracefully along the sea floor ...

Credit: Womad. The Womed Leaf consists of a proprietary polymer that is inserted into the uterine cavity immediately after completion of a hysteroscopic adhesiolysis procedure. The device is indicated ...

A juvenile spotted ratfish. These deep-sea fish are named for their long, rat-like tails. Gareth J. Fraser, University of Florida Deep in the ocean, you can find a strange fish with teeth not just in ...

Researchers studied the male spotted ratfish's tooth-covered forehead appendage, which flares out to ward off rivals and grip onto females. Reading time 3 minutes Spotted ratfish are scaleless, rabbit ...

Scientists studied how the sea creatures, also known as chimaeras or ghost sharks, ended up with one of evolution’s most bizarre appendages. By Jack Tamisiea Life in the ocean’s dark depths can be ...

Ghost sharks have evolved rows of true teeth on a bizarre forehead rod used for mating. Fossil and genetic evidence revealed the tenaculum’s teeth develop the same way as those inside the mouth, ...

The spotted ratfish is a two-foot-long fish with a big head and a long, skinny tail that lives in the northeastern Pacific Ocean. It belongs to a group of fish called chimaeras that are closely ...