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The eruption lit up the night sky and dropped ash miles away.

The U.S. has now tallied more than 24.2 million cases and more than 400,000 deaths.

A stolen copy of a da Vinci painting has turned up in an Italian apartment, even though no one knew it was missing. The museum where it was...

Scientists describe a new species of assassin bug from a fossil that dates to around 50 million years ago and includes the insect's intact g...

The incoming CDC director has a lot of work to do, and she knows it.

Scientists used chicken eggs as a model for the human skull and brain.

A new paper proposes building a 'megasatellite' of human habitats around the dwarf planet Ceres.

A new coronavirus variant has been found in multiple California outbreaks, but scientists aren't yet sure whether it's more transmissible th...

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Here's how crude oil becomes plastic.

Watch as RNA dances and wiggles into its final form.

Data from the now-destroyed Arecibo radio telescope has revealed a bizarre new type of hybrid venomous spider star.

It's open to debate, but a lot of the 19th century was spent in open revolt.

A new exhibit showcases microscopy in archaeology, highlighting objects' unexpected beauty and revealing clues about the past.

Here's why snow is white and not clear like water or ice.

Black and Latino populations are disproportionately affected.

Here's why inauguration day occurs months after an election.

Strict measures will be needed to prevent it from taking over.

The infants who were born to mothers with cervical cancer may have developed lung cancer after "aspirating" tumor cells

Martin Luther King Jr. was a civil rights leader who fought for racial and economic justice. His oft-quoted "I Have a Dream" speech made an...

Researchers with NASA and NOAA released their annual assessments of global temperatures and climate trends, finding 2020 to be one of the ho...

The collapse of the iconic radio telescope at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico last month has left astronomers with a host of question...

A triple-threat of climate change, biodiversity loss and overpopulation is bearing down on Earth, a new paper from 17 scientists warns.

In the 16th century, an attack from the Ottoman Empire may have prompted panicked Hungarians to bury a stash of valuable silver and gold coi...

For over a century, hundreds to thousands of poisonous millipedes have swarmed train tracks in the thick, forested mountains of Japan, forci...