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A new memorandum has firmed up China and Russia's intent to lead the construction of a new lunar base to be completed by 2036, as NASA talks...

Claims that spruce trees synchronize their responses to a solar eclipse were widely reported recently — but many researchers are sceptical o...

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock spilled into the...

Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone previously belie...

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and where to look.

Does Jupiter have rings? How about Uranus? Here's everything you need to know about which planets have rings.

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the Black Sea around 70...

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million years.

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, scientists have...

With a little guidance and a lot of practice, even you can make stone tools the way our oldest ancestors did — and learn to recognize the si...

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness."

Neural processing unts (NPUs) are the latest chips you might find in smartphones and laptops — but what are they ard why are they so importa...

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent by size, so what's hiding under its massive sheaths of ice?

We live in an era of constant surveillance. Psychology research shows how this might change how we perceive the world — even unconsciously

Winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award revealed.

Two studies show major progress in the field of photonic microchips.

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, th...

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus?

Some users of GLP-1 weight-loss drugs have been reporting strange changes in food preferences, such as a new dislike for meats or fried food...

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian Ocean early Sa...

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