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Dead sharks usually sink, so it's surprising to find one washed up onshore.

Four orangutans and five bonobos have been vaccinated.

The breakthrough technique supercools plasma with lasers before trapping them in a magnetic field; allowing physicists to study the northern...

Scientists have identified the earliest primates from tiny fossilized teeth, revealing that our ancient ancestors likely lived alongside the...

If you are perplexed by reports of unidentified aerial phenomena and possible visitations of alien spacecraft, you can take action with do-i...

We've got good news and bad news about the latest explosive SpaceX Starship test in Boca Chica, Texas.

SpaceX looks set to launch yet another Starship prototype over Texas today. Two previous tests ended in explosions.

The study is an early first step to understanding the link between blood type and COVID-19.

A newly discovered instruction manual for embalming mummies in ancient Egypt contains the earliest known description of these mysterious tec...

The iceberg broke off after a crack formed in November 2020.

An meteor breaking apart as it entered the atmosphere above the U.K. might be the most well documented fireball meteor ever seen.

X-ray scans and digital reconstructions revealed the contents of undelivered letters that were sealed more than 600 years ago.

A rare Australian bee has been spotted for the first time since 1923. It was previously believed to be extinct.

Two ancient stone coffins that may have once held the remains of a husband and wife have been rediscovered in a wildlife park near the Israe...

Like mad scientists, researchers are creating miniature black holes in their laboratories. Their mission? To see if a mysterious form of rad...

Eight years after an asteroid exploded over Chelyabinsk, Russia, scientists are taking advantage of a flyby of the infamous asteroid Apophis...

A new study finds that cats, unlike dogs, will gladly accept food from people who are not nice to their owners.

In AI-generated animations, faces that were once frozen in time blink, turn their heads and even smile.

Sightings of these spiders in the university's library basement prompted staff to close the library for two days.

The early data suggest a link, but cannot say whether cannabis causes the rebound headaches.

Mount Etna, Europe's most active volcano, has been erupting for nearly two weeks straight, and the photos are stunning.

An ornate four-wheeled chariot of iron, bronze and wood that archaeologists think was drawn by a team of horses in processions through Pompe...

A camera at an observatory in Hawaii captured a red sprite and a blue jet in the same frame.

A new form of active matter known as swirlonic matter clumps together in quasi-particles that bend the laws of physics.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use on Saturday (Feb. 27), making...