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A stronomers using the JWST have traced the source of a long-duration gamma-ray burst back to a supernova that exploded ...

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New research reveals that Earth’s solid inner core is actually in a superionic state, where carbon atoms flow freely through ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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Amazon has just announced the biggest Alexa trends this year, and here's what we've all been asking our Echo speakers.

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb argues that the anomalous interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS exposes a critical gap in humanity's ...

Three thought experiments involving “demons” have haunted physics for centuries. What should we make of them today?

While keeping the long-dead crocodilian intact, McKnight and her team also “virtually” recreated the bronze hook lodged in ...

At the base of mossy trees, deep in the mountains of Taiwan and mainland Japan or nestled in the subtropical forests of ...

An extreme close-up of the Australian rufous net-casting spider's unique silk, captured by biologist Martín Ramírez and his ...