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Exceptionally Preserved Bird Feathers Found in 66-Million-Year-Old Dinosaur Coprolite

Alzheimer's Disease Threat Actually Emerges From Beyond The Brain, Study Finds

You may not need 10,000 steps to get health benefits from walking

Galaxies tangled in science and spirit photo of the day for Sept. 7, 2026

After 8 years, Europe’s BepiColombo mission is on final approach to Mercury

Scientists Filmed an Alien-Looking Fish Moonwalking Across The Seafloor

'Wonder Drug': Common Diabetes Pill Could Transform How We Age, Scientists Say

Rare, Widespread Snow in the Atacama Desert

Utah’s mountains may be hiding a billion tons of ice

Want to Protect Your Memory After a Sleepless Night? A Study Found 2 Ways to Reduce the Cognitive Cost

Reconstructed Jurassic insect calls evoke a 165-million-year-old forest soundscape

Mosquitoes bite some people far more than others, and it has nothing to do with sweet blood — one research team traced it to the oily film on our skin, where certain fatty acids help create body odour

One Common Type of Physical Activity Linked to Higher Dementia Risk

Anthropologist Proposes Folding Australopithecus and Paranthropus into Genus Homo

Psychedelics align brain activity with context

X-rays add new twist to narwhal’s spiral tusk

How Coffee Affects Your Sex Hormone Levels

His pelvis was made for walking. Hers? Not so much, claims study of Neanderthal bones

Giant crocodylians dominated the food chain in Miocene South America, fossil evidence suggests

Scientists Capture World-First Footage of Dolphins Using Seashells to Catch Fish

Rings forged from meteorites may have been fashionable among ancient Greek elites

A few minutes of sprinting could make a bigger impact than 90 minutes of moderate running

Scientists Tracked Cannabis Users’ Hearts Day by Day—One Finding Stood Out

The SpaceX Rocket Finally Hit the Moon. Here’s What Scientists Saw

Behold the majestic mane of the Lion Nebula photo of the day for Aug. 11, 2026

Study Points to Sugar, Not Just Meat, as Fuel for Human Brain Evolution

Could Viagra Help Fight Cancer? Study Finds Surprising Cholesterol Link

Parasitic zombie fungus thrives in mosses, too

Experimental Cancer Drug Force-Feeds Tumors Sugar Until They Choke

Were there tiny dinosaurs? New study explores one of evolution's biggest mysteries

An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

Two origins of life: Free-living cells may have emerged twice as bacteria and archaea diverged

Neanderthal growth hormone receptor increases muscle mass in people today, study shows

Avoiding 3 things during middle age may delay dementia risk by 13 years

Curiosity rover spots mysterious honeycombs on Mars photo of the day for Aug. 5, 2026

Newly discovered oddball amphibian fossils could reveal clues about the prehistoric LA climate

Costa Rica scientists placed an AI touchscreen in a wild forest; 16 capuchin monkeys used it for banana r

On this day in space! Aug. 2, 1971: Apollo 15 makes 1st-ever televised liftoff from the moon

Why Dreaming Leaves the Brain Running Low on Energy

Ancient DNA Reveals Woolly Mammoth With A Sex Chromosome Combination Never Before Seen In An Extinct Species

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds a Vast Sea of Strange Honeycomb Patterns on Mars

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NASA’s New 3D Model Shows the Earth Is a Lumpy Mess

NASA captures rare phenomenon of a black hole 'devouring' a star

Falcon 9 Rocket Stage "Abandoned" In High-Earth Orbit Is About To Slam Into The Moon, With The Energy Of 11.8 Gigajoules

‘A moment in time’: Fossil footprints shed new light on the extinct ‘Nutcracker Man’

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There's a Scientific Reason Regular Cannabis Users Wake Up More Stressed

New research from Oregon State University suggests a biological link between frequent cannabis consumption and elevated morning stress hormone levels.

See it: NASA satellite reveals hummingbird-shaped secret beneath Antarctica's ice

Naked Mole-Rats Just Got Even Wackier; Turns Out The Queen Keeps Her Colony Infertile Through Scent

Researchers tag 42 sleeping giants in Arctic Circle

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Our 1st-ever up-close look at the Martian surface photo of the day for July 22, 2026

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Watching too much TV in midlife may shrink the brain

Robot bird swims underwater then flies away

Naked mole-rat queens use a chemical signal to suppress fertility in rivals

Octopus Brains Defy a Long-Held Rule About Why Animals Evolve Intelligence

New research into cephalopod intelligence suggests that ecological factors, rather than social behavior, drive brain evolution.

How Infrasound Rewires Ear Mechanics

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First-Ever Footage of Haunting Barreleye Fish Captured Deep Beneath The Atlantic

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Astronomers perplexed by new James Webb Space Telescope photos unveiling secrets of a galaxy 11 million lig...

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured unprecedented images of a 'Centaur' galaxy, revealing the impact of cosmic collisions.

Scientists Calculate When The Last Plants on Earth Will Die

New scientific modeling estimates that plant life on Earth will reach an end in approximately 2 billion years.

Scientists Have Created a Cell from Scratch and Researchers Say ‘We Can Engineer It’

NASA's Chandra telescope reveals Milky Way's outer reaches may stretch farther than previously known