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

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

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

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Perry Samson was helping students conduct field experiments on supercell storms in Kansas in 2008 when one suddenly turned ...

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

In the Middle Ages, a man was buried in a Stone Age monument in what is now Spain. Now, we finally know his genetic roots, ...

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 ...

Once described by a 16th-century anatomist as the "shameful member," the clitoris has historically been ignored in research ...