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From Google's AI to quantum computing, how much do you know about the year's biggest breakthroughs in tech?

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Doctors write case reports to call attention to unique, unusual or perplexing medical cases. Do you remember these stand-out cases from 2024...

There were sharks eating sharks, snakes eating snakes, and ants chopping each other's legs off. Here is a roundup of some of the best animal...

The world's oldest rocks are spread across the globe and paint a picture of Earth's turbulent early history. Here are some of the most notab...

We may be on the cusp of quantum supremacy. But what does that actually mean?

From a disembodied torso to a "friendly" robot with unnervingly human facial expressions, here are seven of the most advanced humanoid robot...

By digitally modeling muscles and tendons for the skeleton of Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), researchers determined that our hominin anc...

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When human activities disrupt and unbalance ecosystems, such as by way of climate change and biodiversity loss, things go wrong.

Soaring carbon emissions, an unexpected new source of global warming, and collapsing ocean currents shocked scientists in 2024. Here are our...

Frosted branch angiitis is a rare condition that makes the blood vessels that supply the retina look like the frosted branches of a tree.

From a telescope network that spans much of the globe to a psychology study that spans 67 countries, here are the biggest science experiment...

We've seen countless new innovations in the space of robotics, from humanoid robots to AI-powered machines — but how much do you know about...

What knocked this black hole over onto its side? It's a cosmic "whodunnit" that NASA scientists using the Hubble and Chandra space telescope...

A massive, energetic jet from Virgo A could help scientists understand how matter behaves around a black hole.

From bloodsucking fly mites to fish being swallowed whole, photographers get up close and personal with an array of animals in this year's s...

An excavation of three Viking graves in Norway reveals beads, coin jewelry and a stone carved to look like female genitalia.

Here are our biggest archeology stories of 2024.

Life expectancy prediction using data collected over four decades reveals southern right whales' exceptionally long lives — far longer than...

The James Webb Space Telescope has caught a napping monster black hole in the early universe. The cosmic giant is slumbering after a massive...

A patient went to the doctor for cataract surgery, but her physicians were surprised to find a huge, foreign mass under her eyelid.

A display of auroras is expected to light up the skies on Christmas Day, thanks to a powerful M8.9 solar flare enroute to Earth.

Researchers have found that stick insects keep evolving the same 20 body plans, from the "tree lobster'" to the "bark hugger" and the "large...

On Christmas Eve, NASA's Parker Solar Probe flew closer to the sun than any human-made object ever — a stunning technological feat that scie...