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The James Webb telescope peered into an ancient spot of light, and found it to be the most metal-poor galaxy in the early ...

A 2015 astronaut photo shows dark-orange water that appears to bleed across the bright-white floor of a high-altitude salt ...

The Euphrates River fueled the "cradle of civilization," and a new study reveals the waterway was born of two other ancient ...

The Gessel gold hoard is among the largest treasures ever discovered in prehistoric Europe but has only three pieces of ...

A child's 4,000-year-old skull found in Uzbekistan has signs of trepanation, making it the oldest evidence of surgery in ...

In honor of the 700th-anniversary founding of the Royal Monastery of Santa Maria Pedralbes in Barcelona, scientists opened ...

Researchers in Japan have created a device that promises to boost computer processing speeds, without generating massive ...

Physicists used quantum bits to achieve perfect randomness for the first time ever. The results of their research could ...

A weird 20-legged machine could change how scientists think about the ideal robot form. For decades, roboticists have been ...