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Here's why the COVID-19 vaccine causes side effects, and why we shouldn't worry about them.

In Iron Age boat burials, 1,400-year-old feathers filled comfy cushions under warriors' bones. Down in the bedding belonged to different bir...

Scientists analyzed the hearts of retired astronaut Scott Kelly after he spent time in space and elite endurance swimmer Benoît Lecomte afte...

More research is needed to know if the same mechanism halts hair growth in humans.

Tapanuli orangutans now occupy less than 3% of their historic habitat.

A human-shaped wooden idol decorated with an eerie human face and considered the oldest of its kind ever discovered may date back even furth...

Pfizer and BioNTech plan to submit the clinical trial data to the FDA as soon as possible.

Tiny fossils in Newfoundland, Canada may be evidence of the oldest cephalopod on record.

Humans have what it takes to make venom, but it may not be worth the trouble.

Scientists created a new organism called JCVI-syn3A that contains fewer than 500 genes.

An oil refinery in Indonesia has caught fire after an oil leak that may have been ignited by a lightning strike.

Billions of periodical cicadas, known as Brood X, will emerge across the eastern U.S. in 2021.

Three Russian navy submarines punched their way through several feet of sea ice in the Arctic to surface simultaneously within a few hundred...

The notorious Apophis space rock just shed its hazardous status — for the next 100 years at least — after fresh observations of the near-Ear...

A protoplanet called Theia crashed into Earth 4.5 billion years ago

The remains of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket burned up in the atmosphere over the Western US on Thursday, surprising and delighting stargazers.

Many experts have rejected that theory as unlikely.

The researchers say the discovery will give them new insights into how the immune system works, as well as enabling them to revise some of t...

Most predators are stymied by the cicadas' 17-year life spans, but the insects are still vulnerable to being zombified.

Tiny Earth-observing Dove satellites operated by the California company Planet have spied the giant cargo ship that's blocking the Suez Cana...

DNA is a molecule that contains the instructions an organism needs to develop, live and reproduce.

Pfizer is the latest COVID-19 vaccine maker to test its shot in young children.

Scientists have finally solved a 25-year-old mystery surrounding a neurodegenerative disease killing bald eagles and other lake animals in t...

Octopuses switch between "quiet" and "active" sleep, where they turn vivid colors.

Arecibo Observatory's collapse on Dec. 1, 2020 was a devastating blow for science, but its decades of observations will inform research for...