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Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

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Microwaves can control a single quantum bit more precisely than ever before, creating a device similar to a quantum ...

When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pesticides dangerous to aquatic life for at ...

Mining craters on the moon could be more practical than extracting precious metals from asteroids, but it might also ...

Another popular and fast-growing career path for scientists is the aerospace industry. Space agencies like NASA, the European ...

Results from the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) suggest that dark energy, a mysterious force in the universe, is ...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

City-sized droplets and twisting streams of plasma have been picked up by incredibly detailed images of the sun’s corona, ...

Artificial intelligence has removed many of the barriers to understanding a new language, but there are still good reasons to ...