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The method has not yet been tested on animals or people.

Massive lemurs once clung to Madagascar's trees. Scientists recently sequenced the nuclear genome of one extinct giant, the koala lemur, for...

Historians found that a Book of the Dead segment from New Zealand matched another in Los Angeles.

Rani, potentially the world's smallest cow, is likely the product of bovine inbreeding.

Aliens will most likely be robotic and guided by AI—so we'll need our own AI to figure them out.

Originally built to speed up calculations, a machine-learning system is now making shocking progress at the frontiers of experimental quantu...

The sheep specimen is a rare example of "natural" mummification.

Our list of 10 of the most beautiful places in the world covers an array of natural landscapes, cities, islands and cultural sites.

Since May 28, the graves of more than 1,000 Indigenous children have been discovered in Canada, on the grounds of former state-funded boardi...

An underwater robot captured footage of the rarely seen glass octopus in the remote Pacific.

The mass death of animals such as mussels and clams will have a significant impact on coastal water quality, scientists say.

NASA scientists have mapped the dynamic, ever-shifting lakes beneath Antarctica in more detail than ever before.

The researchers believe their new bendy ice strands could give us some important hints into how water ice behaves in its natural state.

Around 100 cases of Guillain-Barré have been reported in people who received the J&J vaccine.

Between Jan. 1 and July 2, 841 manatees died near and off the coast of Florida, a record-breaking number.

The study compared the cognitive skills of dog and wolf puppies ages 5 to 18 weeks old.

Large telecommunication satellites used for TV broadcasting could be quickly and easily repurposed as anti-asteroid weapons according to Eur...

Early this morning (July 11), billionaire Richard Branson and three other passengers briefly went to space for the first fully crewed spacef...

Women tend to outlive men because of biological and social factors.

Temperatures over 120 degrees Fahrenheit are part of a "heat dome" scorching the western United States.

Although the asteroid, Bennu, only has a 1-in-2700 chance of hitting Earth, scientists are taking the risk seriously.

Atoms are the building blocks of all matter in the universe, but how many are there in the part of it we can see from Earth?

A perplexing mystery about a scattered hoard of ancient Roman coins found near a river in the Netherlands has now been solved.

This Friday (July 9), we will explore the chemistry of milk plastic, (or casein plastic) in our new kids video series: Summer School with Li...

Virgin Galactic will broadcast the flight of its founder, Richard Branson, as he soars into space on Sunday (July 11).