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A new fungus that infects cave spiders and turns them into "zombies" was discovered in a Victorian gunpowder store at Castle Espie in Northe...

Rather than helping each other out when they're attacked, plants may have to eavesdrop on each other to know when to launch their own defens...

A mechanism that activates specific muscles in our ears is a leftover from our evolutionary past, back when our ancestors depended more on t...

Upheaval Dome is a giant rock formation in southeastern Utah with two potential origin stories, although most scientists think it was create...

Let's explore the possibility of traveling to universes beyond our own — if they so exist, that is.

A woman with heart failure was kept alive long enough to receive a heart transplant, in part thanks to newly developed stem-cell-derived hea...

Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its...

How much do you know about Alexander the Great?

A new study suggests the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation has not weakened since the 1960s — but there's no doubt the circulation...

Alkaptonuria is an unusual disorder caused by a defect in protein metabolism.

Gravitational waves offer a 'cosmic DNA test' for black holes

"Our measurements imply that the supermassive black hole mass is 10% of the stellar mass in the galaxies we studied."

A space rock dubbed 2024 YR4 has a 1.2% chance of smashing into our planet, scientists estimate.

A miniature gold lock dated to the third to fourth centuries was found by a metal detectorist in Germany.

Alibaba claims that its Qwen2.5-Max artificial intelligence model outperformed its rivals at OpenAI, Meta and DeepSeek.

Ocean warming has more than quadrupled in recent decades and is likely to accelerate even faster if humanity fails to address climate change...

Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen...

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

A minor earthquake has hit Yellowstone National Park, and some people in the region experienced a tremor. The magnitude 3.9 earthquake struc...

Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

By modifying 20 regions of the genome, scientists successfully bred mice with two male parents and raised them to maturity.

By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger travel.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released a new image generator, Janus-Pro-7B, which the company says is better than competitors.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock closer to Armageddon than ever before.

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if...