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Centuries-old cemetery points to colder climate as a factor in childhood vitamin D deficiency in industrial England

American start-up plans to sell sunlight at night with help from India’s Skyroot Aerospace; a scientific

Scientists achieve record-breaking low temperature on China's space station, paving the way for new physics experiments

Canada landslide sent seven Great Pyramids' worth of earth downhill, much of it still frozen

See how octopuses squeeze through tiny spaces

Moths Keep Evolving Their Genitals Into Anti-Bat Weapons, Again And Again

Scientists say they’ve found rare evidence of blood cells in a fossil. Not everyone is convinced

New diabetes implant uses electricity to lower blood sugar and promote weight loss

NASA telescope is on the verge of plunging back to Earth after failed rescue mission

Seabirds get jet lag, and it can throw them off course, study shows

Comets probably didn't seed life on Earth after all, new study suggests

Chinese scientists discover “D-rex,” a giant fungus with roots stretching back 65 million years

Six Flags to Add Seat Belts to Rides Following Death

Tiny Genetic Tweak From An Ancient Virus Might've Prevented Chimpanzees From Developing Brains Like Ours

Overdose deaths have plunged. We need to know why

Astronomers Matched van Gogh’s Starry Night to a Real Sky—and a Weirdly Specific Date

Nikon’s Small World photomicrography competition winners

Experts Warn of Humans Becoming Empty Vessels Controlled by AI

Rolling Snakes Reinvent The Wheel

A Japanese Spacecraft Aims to Bring Back a Bit of a Martian Moon

NASA's Voyager 1 Spacecraft Approaches Deep Space Milestone

Neanderthal remains may be earliest human ancestor find killed by a spear

I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep

World's Loudest Birds Rival Jackhammers

Gene therapy can partly restore sight in blind people, researchers reveal

Scientists identify a crocodile they never knew existed

Moms' brains really do change in pregnancy. What a neuromaternal expert wants you to know

New weight-loss drug could give you a ‘flatter stomach’ in mere weeks

Earth is in the firing line of a strange new type of cosmic object: a 'microblazar'

A one-time treatment may fix damaged adult retinas

‘Phoenix planet’ may have formed from a dead star’s ashes

El Niño could put Washington’s coastal towns in hot water

A high school teacher stumbled across two giant footprints

Powerful El Nino could cause more than 450,000 deaths, scientists say

This 'fire amoeba' pushes the limit of what's possible for complex life

Astronomers Detect Radio Signals Coming Directly From an Exoplanet For The First Time

Menopause May Temporarily Alter Your Brain's Normal Aging, Scans Reveal

The first mRNA flu shot is now available. Here’s who can get it.

Human-Caused Warming Played ‘Very Strong’ Role in Himalayan Floods, Report Finds

New wild cat species is identified for first time in 100 years, researchers say

Researchers swap in human brain cells for a mouse’s cortex

Who Pays the Price for AI Crime?

Mathematicians want proof OpenAI didn’t use their work

Scientists Recreated Chirps of Jurassic Insects, Simulating a 165 Million-yo Soundscape (Listen)

Archaeologists Just Found the Most Complete Denisovan Record Yet—and It Goes Back 190,000 Years

Not a cheetah: Ancient DNA reveals the surprising Arctic life of extinct North American cat

Scientists find a huge 10-sided wave pattern swirling in the clouds over Saturn’s south pole

Physicists test the weak equivalence principle in an orbiting space station

Scientists Hunting Dark Matter Found Something Strange

An unexpected signal reported on Sept 1 may be the first direct hint of dark matter, sparking worldwide scientific scrutiny.

Researchers discover why constipation is so common in astronauts

Preclinical study points to cancer drugs as possible treatments for chronic nerve pain

Bizarre Fossil Turns Out to Be a 24-Legged Insect Science Somehow Missed

NASA is about to launch a space telescope that could change how we see the universe

After failure of private rescue mission, NASA's Swift space telescope will crash back to Earth. But when and where?

The mystery of Moderna’s magic algorithm

Shingles vaccine linked to 24% lower dementia risk

Your Diet Before Age 2 May Shape Your Brain Health for Decades, New Study Shows

Thunder + fiber-optic cabling used for seismic imaging

This high-speed star is whipping around the black hole in the middle of our galaxy

After 50 Years, Physicists Find Strong Evidence For What Really Holds Matter Together