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Right now we’re in a golden age of new solar science. For the first time, we’re getting close-up pictures of the Sun like ...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have rewritten a small part of Oklahoma’s geologic history with global ...

Imagine swimmers on starting blocks poised to dive at the sound of the starting horn or the driver of a car going 60 mph ...

At the end of the last Ice Age, early humans crisscrossed the Americas following seasons, rivers and game, often with a trusty spear in hand. Nearly 13,000 years later, archeologists are using those ...

Between the Canadian province of British Columbia and the U.S. state of Washington, the Salish Sea has been hiding two tiny oddities in plain sight. Researchers have described two sea spiders ...