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A new look at an ancient eruption at Campi Flegrei raises new questions about the propensity of the still-active volcano, located near Naple...

Perry and a celebrity female crew will launch on Blue Origin's NS-31 mission this spring.

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) — dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" — shines brightly after its...

"Stink face" seems silly to us, but for cats it's a serious way to gather social information through smell.

If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, we can turn to...

Scientists have pinpointed and described unusual subtypes of fat cells that may help scientists explain why gut fat is linked to poor health...

The "Cosmic Horseshoe" is an Einstein ring, a system made up of a foreground galaxy whose mass is so great, it warps the light from a galaxy...

The venomous centipede crawled into the Movile Cave millions of years ago and adapted to live in the pitch black, surrounded by deadly gases...

A 2,800-year-old fortified wall has been found in a narrow mountain pass in China.

Why do we laugh when tickled but are unable to tickle ourselves? Neuroscience has the answer.

March 1, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the...

Early data suggest that the 2024-2025 flu shots have effectively lowered rates of flu hospitalization and outpatient visits in vaccinated pe...

Built by the Norwegian startup 1X, the Neo Gamma humanoid robot is designed to complete mundane household tasks.

Researchers have discovered that humans lived in tropical rainforests 150,000 years ago, around 100,000 years earlier than previous evidence...

A new study has pinpointed cells in the brains of mice that have the unique ability to proliferate and may help to repair damaged tissue. Sc...

The U.S. is home to 63 national parks, which are areas of land protected by the federal government. How many of these parks can you name in...

Walvis Bay in Namibia is home to the largest solar sea-salt production plant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plant is famous for its brightly col...

Ancient footprints and drag marks at White Sands National Park in New Mexico suggest the earliest known Americans dragged wooden travois-lik...

Tiny scraps of genetic material from bamboo might influence the genes of pandas, helping them adapt to a mostly bamboo diet.

Scientists have determined exactly how Earth's orbit and tilt affect glaciation and deglaciation, based on the length of these parameters' c...

Researchers have created a battery that transforms nuclear waste into a power source for microelectronics.

The most powerful cosmic rays in the universe currently have no explanation. New research suggests that exotic, self-annihilating particles...

The new study on the "glass brain" from Herculaneum is the latest episode in a long-running academic dispute.

AWS's first-ever quantum chip uses "cat qubits" to reduce errors exponentially as more qubits are added to a system. Scientists say it will...

Several groups are working to preserve webpages, tools and data — some of which have already gone missing from government webpages since the...