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Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease is an extremely rare and fatal brain-wasting disease that's like a human version of "mad cow."

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As Kilauea erupts a 330-foot-tall fountain of lava, officials warn of hazards from volcanic gas that may affect nearby communities.

NASA will send astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams home from the International Space Station early on a previously used SpaceX Dragon...

Quakes recorded for the first time inside Greenland's biggest frozen river, the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream, suggest this river and other...

Einstein predicted the existence of gravitationally-warped rings of light in 1915. Now, a new one has been discovered just a cosmic stone's...

Researchers have discovered blow fly larvae with fake termite faces on their rears that enable them to socially integrate into termite colon...

A French astrophotographer recently snapped shots of the moon, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune in a single evening, and rea...

A viral video captured in an unknown location and widely shared on social media in China shows a robotic dog and a drone firing fireworks at...

A 'false dusk' will be visible during twilight in February, but only from locations that are free of light pollution. Here's everything you...

Archaeologists in Italy have discovered a 2,500-year-old Etruscan tomb that is richly decorated with wall paintings.

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The high value of the fifth-century-B.C. artifacts found in Kazakhstan indicates that wealthy or even "royal" Sarmatians were buried there.

The heart drug digoxin could potentially be combined with existing cancer therapies to prevent the spread of tumors, an early trial suggests...

Wildlife officials accidentally captured the heaviest Florida panther ever documented during a routine population check.

Ten months of unrest at Mount Spurr could be a sign of an upcoming eruption from a side vent or, less likely, from the main crater.

Japan's Fugaku supercomputer has gained an edge following the installation of the Reimei quantum computer.

Data collected from a once-defunct NASA satellite show that Earth grew two extra radiation belts following a supercharged geomagnetic storm...

This hour-long documentary offers never-before-seen footage of orca hunting behaviour – here's how to watch 'Expedition Killer Whale' online...

The Sarandí canal in Argentina turned blood red last week. Officials suspect a toxic substance used in dyes has entered the waterway, locate...

Researchers have returned to an underground thermal lake they first came across in 2021 in southern Albania and confirmed it is the largest...

Test your knowledge on the giant ball of burning gas at the heart of the solar system.

AI "alignment" is a buzzword, not a feasible safety goal.

A new study of human remains dredged from the Thames River reveals that people frequently deposited corpses there in the Bronze and Iron age...

This 2023 satellite photo shows the heart-shaped Spirit Lake, which was transformed by the cataclysmic eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980.