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Scientists recently animated the hazards of being a blue whale that's trying to avoid collisions with ships at sea.

The Amazons were fierce female warriors of ancient Greek mythology, but did they really exist?

These carnivorous plants generate tiny magnetic signals when they clamp down on insects.

A lab experiment mimicking mantle conditions revealed how diamonds need an electric field to grow.

Amid a shortage of vaccine supplies and the threat of emerging coronavirus variants, such an approach might provide an answer for both.

The mutations 'disguise' the virus from antibodies.

The frills of protoceratops were probably the result of sexual selection.

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In 2018, one of the brightest X-ray lights in the sky went dark, and scientists still aren't sure why.

Sea levels will probably rise faster than the most mainstream climate models predict, according to a new study.

A 38-foot-long (11.5 meters) whale that washed ashore in the Florida Everglades in January 2019 turns out to be a completely new species. An...

This is the first time that a coronavirus vaccine has shown it may reduce the spread of the virus.

Scientists have finally uncovered some of the basic chemical properties of einsteinium — one of the hardest elements to study.

At least twice, the Arctic Ocean was a freshwater pool cut off from other oceans and capped with almost 3,000 feet of ice.

Archaeologists have discovered one of the oldest known mosques on record.

Called xylazine, the drug is a sedative used in veterinary medicine, and is not approved for us in humans.

This mutation has also been seen in a novel coronavirus variant in South Africa.

Scientists captured high-speed footage of the moment before lightning strikes.

Blame plate tectonics for Earth’s mountains, earthquakes, volcanoes, and why its continents fit together like pieces of a giant jigsaw puzzl...

Archaeologists in Israel have uncovered 3,000-year-old textiles stained with a valuable purple dye made from Mediterranean mollusks.

Extreme heat in Australia can send spiders scurrying for indoor shelter, and one family found themselves with a few hundred new roommates.

Archaeologists have found the ancient ruins of a Roman fort, early Coptic church and Ptolemaic temple in Egypt.

Scientists used powerful radar signals to capture the image.

A dinosaur track found by a 4-year-old on a Welsh beach belongs to one of the earliest dinos.

More northern white rhino embryos have been created in a lab in the race to save the subspecies from extinction. There are now five in total...