A comprehensive new study combines decades of research to reveal that we're missing an essential component in our understanding of how the universe works.

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Using synchrotron X-ray CT scans of a fossilized, intact embryo, researchers found evidence that the plant-eating mammal ...

For the first time, researchers measured singularities in combined light and sound waves moving faster than the speed of ...

Homo erectus may have deliberately selected rocks embedded with fossils and crystals to craft their hand axes — possibly to ...

The first well-observed "civil war" in wild chimpanzees reveals that shifting social ties alone can fracture a group, ...

A genomic analysis of dozens of ancient Korean skeletons revealed a special "sacrificial caste" of people. When you purchase ...

Scientists discovered that making a very small change to female mice's DNA caused them to develop male reproductive organs.

New images show the sungrazer comet C/2026 A1 (MAPS) did not survive its close approach to our home star. Instead, the ...

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It's a running joke that a cure for type 1 diabetes is only five years away and has been for 50 years, but new stem cell trials and immune drugs hint that we're closer than ever to a functional cure ...