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Although many researchers assume that birthday celebrations date back to the ancient Egyptians, the earliest textual evidence of a birthday...

New simulations reveal that around 1 million "macroscopic" objects from our closest stellar neighbors, the Alpha Centauri system, may alread...

Test your knowledge of humanity's major space-faring milestones and the incredible astronauts who accomplished them.

Older chatbots, just like people, show signs of cognitive impairment, failing on several important metrics in a test normally used on human...

The James Webb Space Telescope has zoomed in on Leo P, a tiny galaxy with some big things to say about star formation.

Animals hear other species communicate around them every day. Do they understand what they're saying?

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Labord's chameleons are only found in Western Madagascar and have developed a live fast die young life cycle to cope with the extreme enviro...

The Summerville ghost lanterns have mystified locals for generations. But geologists may have finally cracked the case.

People go on 5K and 10K runs all the time. But what's the farthest humans can run at one time?

The new Surface offers a great display and long battery life

Feb. 15, 2025: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the...

Remains of a civic basilica give archaeologists clues to what the original layout of Roman London looked like.

A humpback whale appeared to swallow then spit out a kayaker in a viral video filmed off the coast of Chile. But was he actually in any dang...

New research suggests that people who are exposed to higher levels of air pollution and extreme temperatures during pregnancy have longer pr...

Intel’s reference laptop design aims to cut e-waste and make computers you can easily repair.

Buried several miles beneath East Antarctica's ice, Lake Vostok is one of the largest freshwater lakes on Earth, rivaling Lake Ontario in te...

On this day 35 years ago, NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft took a picture that changed how we see our planet. The iconic "Pale Blue Dot" image is...

Kissing is a multifaceted and emotionally loaded behavior. Do other animals do it, too?

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Scientists have tagged a giant male great white shark off the East Coast. The researchers said "Contender" is the largest male white shark e...

The U.S. is currently experiencing very high levels of seasonal influenza across the country. Here's why.

Researchers believe they have rediscovered a mysterious star system first spotted in 2011. If true, the alien sun and its exoplanet companio...

Astronomers have used a continent-sized radio telescope to find the largest black hole jet ever observed in the early universe.

DNA and RNA epigenetics, once thought to be separate, have now been found to work together to fine-tune gene expression.