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The injured baby whale slipped free from rescuers on Monday morning, and became stranded again after swimming upstream into shallower waters...

Visitors to a newly-restored shrine in the St. Albans Cathedral will be greeted by a carved stone face wearing a protective mask.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink internet satellites into orbit early Sunday (May 9) and stuck a landing in a record 10th fligh...

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A never-ending detonation could be the key to hypersonic flight and space planes that can seamlessly fly from Earth into orbit.

A new deep-learning approach to predict earthquake shaking could lead to better warnings of where and when shaking will occur.

A new subduction zone south of New Zealand formed when tectonic forces brought a segment of weakened continental crust from the submerged co...

A marine worm from waters near Australia has a branching body that divides into multiple posteriors. In other words: It has a lot of butts.

The Chinese rocket has come down.

Humans may be heart-attack-prone because of a mutation that keeps us from making a particular sugar molecule.

About 180 million years ago, a shark likely attacked a squid-like creature eating a crustacean.

Will it help if you've trained at the North Pole?

A Chinese rocket core is tumbling uncontrolled through orbit, and may crash through the atmosphere on Saturday (May 8), government officials...

A giant sequoia tree in California's Sequoia National Park is still smoldering months after devastating wildfires hit the region last summer...

Pfizer and BioNTech applied to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for full approval of their COVID-19 vaccine.

An earthquake of approximately magnitude 9 in 1700 in Cascadia could have instead been three or four slightly smaller, but still devastating...

For decades, cosmologists have wondered if the large-scale structure of the universe is a fractal — that is, if it looks the same no matter...

A small desert-dwelling theropod dinosaur named Shuvuuia had excellent night vision, and its hearing was comparable to that of an owl. Like...

In a first, researchers have matched the DNA of a living descendent to the remains of one of the doomed explorers.

A hiker discovered one of the largest Bronze Age hoards in Sweden.

The modified mosquitoes should mate with local populations and undermine the survival of offspring.

Doctors have successfully treated a patient who developed very rare blood clots after receiving the Johnson & Johnson with an alternative bl...

A newly discovered species of extinct ancient turtle uncovered in Madagascar is proof of convergent evolution of suction feeding in turtles.

The chaos of the French Revolution allowed Bonaparte to use his military prowess to become ruler of much of Europe.

A tiny grave holding the remains of a 3-year-old child is now the oldest deliberate burial of a Homo sapiens individual in Africa.