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This little bear carved out of amber might have been an amulet for a Stone Age hunter.

That second wave of energy is a normal part of the human circadian rhythm, but lifestyle factors also play a role.

An executive order critiques the idea that race is a human invention. But that's exactly what modern science supports.

Earth's oceans could one day turn purple.

The Eye of Horus is frequently found in ancient Egyptian burials, particularly on wedjat amulets.

You don't need plate tectonics to get continental crust that looks modern, a new study finds.

GPT-4.5 has successfully convinced people it’s human 73% of the time in an authentic configuration of the original Turing test.

A Celtic warrior was injured in battle 2,500 years ago. Archaeologists were able to identify the weapon based on 3D scans of his skeleton.

A new image has emerged of the Red Planet rising above the lunar limb after being occulted by the moon in January.

Though research on sexual experience in nonhuman animals is limited to primates and rodents, there's reason to think that they have an "orga...

Is it possible to build a Dyson sphere that isn't catastrophically unstable? New research says yes, but only in one type of star system.

See if your Viking Age trivia knowledge is in ship-shape condition with our quiz.

A new report released April 1 by the European Space Agency sheds light on space pollution surrounding our planet — how bad the problem is, a...

The most distant and earliest "dead" massive galaxy ever seen shows some galaxies lived fast and died young shortly after the Big Bang.

A settlement dating back around 3,400 years has been discovered near the Mediterranean Sea in Egypt.

Pesquet's parrot, also known as a Dracula parrot, resembles a vulture and has a distinct scream — but its favorite food is figs.

Modern flight recorders can hold more than 1,000 pieces of information about an aircraft.

April 12, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the...

Using advanced microscopes that capture brain cell anatomy and activity, a portion of a mouse's brain was mapped and rendered into a 3D atla...

Remains of what may be the ancient capital city of the Kingdom of Lyncestis have been found in North Macedonia.

Physicists have set a new upper limit on the mass of neutrinos. And the finding could poke a big hole in the Standard Model of particle phys...

The La Niña weather pattern ended last month as Pacific Ocean temperatures rose and the El Niño Southern Oscillation cycle entered a neutral...

mRNA vaccines train the immune system in a similar way to traditional vaccines, but they use a different strategy to get there.

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study spanning a million...

Rocket start-up SpinLaunch wants to catapult hundreds of flattened "microsatellites" into space at once, using a cannon-like machine that ac...