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Fossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern or extinct pla...

The remains of ancient bronze statues, including sculpted snakes up to 35 inches long, have been found within a hot spring in Italy.

Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, California.

The life-size clay figurines offer new insights into the organization and structure of China's army 2,000 years ago.

The robot's flexible arms are a technology demonstration that could one day aid in satellite maintenance and space debris management.

As fatal familial insomnia progresses, patients completely stop sleeping and enter a coma-like state that results in death within months.

A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the United States' first serious case of H5N1 bird flu, following 60 milder cases this year...

DIY-ers in northern Holland filled a large gap in a tile floor with precisely sliced cow bones several centuries ago.

The odd atmosphere of a fledgling exoplanet is causing astronomers to question leading theories of how planets form.

Due to a delay with SpaceX's Dragon capsule, NASA's Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who were meant to spend 10 days in space in June 2024,...

The geoengineering scheme, known as stratospheric aerosol injection, would not be cheap, but scientists say it could buy us some time until...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured an image of a baby, Milky Way-like galaxy that formed more than 13 billion years ago. This "Fire...

More than a dozen ancient gold tongues have been discovered in a cemetery at the site of Oxyrhynchus in Egypt.

Scientists have shown that a "remelting event" more than 4.3 billion years ago "reset" the internal clock of most lunar rocks, which has hel...

Fossils of the oldest saber-toothed predator are helping researchers understand the evolution of early mammal relatives called gorgonopsians...

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The "megaberg" A23a is on the move again after spinning in one spot for months on end. This is the ice slab's second great escape in as many...

A man in his 60s went to the emergency room after a fall and ended up being diagnosed with a rare disorder of the penis.

Geographical barriers and cultural differences can prevent people from mingling with their neighbors, leading to genetic isolation — and the...

An Alabama woman underwent a transplant procedure to get a new kidney from a gene-edited pig.

The updated version of the World Magnetic Model was released on Dec. 17, with a new prediction of how the magnetic north pole will shift ove...

While investigating a mysterious radiation signal unlike any seen before, astronomers may have uncovered a rare pair of binary supermassive...

When will MDMA be approved for therapy? Major trial issues may stand in the way, psychiatrist Dr. Albino Oliveira-Maia says

A newfound clay head from the sixth millennium B.C. is the first of its kind ever found in Kuwait, but similar finds have been unearthed fro...

Tiffany Taylor, professor of microbial ecology and evolution at the University of Bath in the U.K., recommends the books that shaped her car...