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The search for alien life is one of humanity's greatest missions, but it may look nothing like anything we've...

A difficult-to-treat form of ringworm can spread via sex and has now been seen in the U.S....

The James Webb Space Telescope has found carbon in a galaxy just 350 million years after the Big Bang. That co...

DNA from prehistoric and modern-day people suggests that humans interbred with Neanderthals 47,000 years ago f...

A company that ships whole cucumbers from Florida has recalled potentially contaminated produce....

Some lupus patients report having nightmares just before a flare, and of these, some report starting to have b...

Rare earth elements are necessary for modern technology, including green energy, but they only come from a few...

Disruptions to a single network in the brain may be responsible for stuttering, new research suggests....

A person in Mexico caught the world's first laboratory-confirmed case of H5N2 bird flu in humans and died of t...

The three-body problem is a physics conundrum that has boggled scientists since Isaac Newton's day. But what i...

While Earth spins in the same direction as the sun, that's not the case for every planet in the solar system....

Thousands of years ago, a large swath of the Sahara may have been a green grassland ideal for raising cattle....

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft will launch two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station today (June 5...

Lightweight fighter aircraft with no pilots could support conventional military missions while being easier to...

Scientists harnessed a new method to precisely measure the amount of information the brain can store, and it c...

Extinct colossal cat Acinonyx pleistocaenicus was the biggest species of cheetah to have ever lived, scientist...

'Teen Rex' is about to go on display for the first time and appear in a new T. rex documentary, thanks to a di...

A new 3D model of a human blood vessel made in the lab may help accelerate the development of new antivenoms,...

Archaeologists used cameras and drones to fully map 14 massive rock art sites scattered across Venezuela and C...

This infection, tied to an ongoing outbreak in cows, is the first in the U.S. to cause respiratory symptoms, b...

The early Celts may have inherited power through their mother's side, according to an ancient DNA analysis of...

Some of the world's animals produce ear-splitting sounds — and some the loudest out there may come as a surpri...

A woman kept mysteriously getting drunk despite not consuming alcohol. Turns out, a rare condition called "aut...

Medical case reports feature a wide array of unusual ailments, from "furry tongues" and water allergies to cha...

Potentially hazardous asteroids pose a risk to Mars missions, but they can also yield insight into the history...