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A new study explores the physiology of Jeju Haenyeo, the famous female freedivers in South Korea.

Cerro El Cono is a solitary, pyramidal hill in the Peruvian Amazon rainforest whose origins remain mysterious and that holds spiritual signi...

A team of scientists upgrade communications between self-driving cars to improve efficiency and enable the vehicles to share current, accura...

Discover interesting facts about how electric vehicles (EVs) work, how far they can go on a single charge, and when we can expect them to ou...

An 18th-century Austrian monk who died of tuberculosis was mummified in an extremely unusual way.

A researcher believes he has found hidden messages on a 3,300-year-old ancient Egyptian obelisk that is now in Paris.

Scientists found a compound that appears to counter common mutations behind POLG-related diseases, rare conditions that harm mitochondrial D...

Take your bird-watching to the next level on May 4 with this huge discount on these premium image-stabilized Canon binoculars at Newegg.

A recent update caused ChatGPT to turn into a sycophant, with the chatbot excessively complimenting and flattering its users with reassuranc...

Vesta, thought to be the second-largest asteroid in the solar system, could be a piece of an ancient, unknown planet, a new study hints.

University of Zurich researchers secretly unleashed an army of manipulative chatbots on the r/changemyview subreddit — and they were more pe...

The annual Eta Aquariid meteor shower, linked to Halley's Comet, will peak overnight on May 5 and 6.

The best small telescopes, all weighing under 22 pounds (10 kg), are portable enough to travel with: Tried and tested by our seasoned astron...

New genetic research confirms what the oral traditions of the Picuris Pueblo people of New Mexico have long described — that they're related...

Geologists have found that an ancient meteorite hit Scotland 200 million years later than previously thought, which has massive implications...

The dinosaurs were not in decline before the asteroid hit, a new study finds. Instead, poor fossilization conditions and unexposed late Cret...

The geology of the Cascadia subduction zone has largely staved off climate-related sea-level rise in the Pacific Northwest, but that could r...

The discovery of Eos, the closest known molecular cloud to Earth and one of the largest structures in the night sky, hints at the presence o...

A Celtic burial site from the Second Iron Age in France contains two rare, well-preserved swords.

Researchers have found that wounds heal three times more slowly in humans than in other primates and rodents, suggesting we may have evolved...

Dead stars may have started churning out vast amounts of gold much earlier in the universe than previously thought, a new study hints. Power...

The lander section of the Kosmos 482 probe was launched in 1972 and designed to survive on Venus. Now it's due a fiery reentry to Earth.

We may have gotten the evolutionary origins of the echidna backward, as new research suggests its ancestors probably lived in the water, not...

Climate change's profound reshaping of conflict dynamics is already underway. The question facing humanity now is not whether we will confro...

Recent findings indicate that dire wolves and gray wolves are distantly related, having diverged about 5.7 million years ago and, as far as...