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An open-source database made by MIT engineers houses over 8,000 aerodynamic car designs and could train future AI models to design EVs in th...

As the Atlantic grew wider, the ancestral population of all of today's oaks may have been straddling the continents of the Northern Hemisphe...

There's a cosmic 'Christmas Wreath' hanging in the Small Magellanic Cloud, the James Webb and Chandra telescopes revealed in a sparkly new i...

In 1974, Stephen Hawking proposed that black holes could evaporate. But do we understand how this might happen?

The James Webb Space Telescope has confirmed 20-year-old Hubble observations that could finally explain how ancient stars can host massive p...

From shocking studies to ESP, what do you know about the most infamous and bizarre psychological experiments ever conducted?

The Celestron PentaView’s LCD digital display makes this microscope ideal for demonstrating to a large audience.

Known for its uncanny resemblance to the TV character Shaun the Sheep, this adorable sea slug munches on algae to steal its ability to photo...

Scientists say a phenomenon called "skin conductance," which changes when you sweat, is a surprisingly accurate method for detecting emotion...

The world we live in might be unrecognizable if Alexander the Great had been defeated by the Persians.

Satellite imagery from NASA and the European Space Agency reveal 13 years of melt on the Greenland Ice Sheet.

Astronomers have discovered a pair of young stars near the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy. Studying them can offer a rar...

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

An initially "unknown" illness affecting hundreds in the Democratic Republic of the Congo may be attributable to malaria, malnutrition and a...

Researchers believe volcanic ash created dark rocks at Oxia Planum, the site of a future Mars rover landing mission. The off-color rocks ma...

Archaeologists have found 188 medieval reliquaries during excavations at a square in Berlin. Some of them still contain human bones of peopl...

Officials say they've eradicated northern giant hornets, nicknamed "murder hornets," after years of tracking the invasive giant wasps in Was...

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities.

The Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from the Nordic Seas...

The declaration of a state of emergency in California over avian influenza comes within days of the first severe human case of bird flu in t...

A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried underground.

A Japanese astronomer captured several impacts on the moon during the Geminid meteor shower.

With legs and wings, the RAVEN can take off with no runway, and even hop along the ground.

Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came...

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after...