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Scientists thought angiosperms didn’t use animals to spread seeds until after the Age of Dinosaurs. Fossilized fruits from ...

Before now, the earliest evidence of the use of fire by hominids was from the same cave — the Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa ...

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The organic molecules could come from life or from ordinary chemistry — only samples returned to Earth can settle it.

The wave's round trip to Earth's core set off a fault slip along Japan's plate boundaries, revealing a seismic hazard scientists hadn't recognized.

Researchers were unsure whether alpha particles would aid or hinder fusion. Simulations suggest they help, by dampening ...

A fossil that has puzzled scientists for over 150 years is possibly the largest scorpion known to exist.

An imaging study found early signs of coronary artery disease in people in Canada breathing air that regulators consider ...

At least a dozen animals have been found with the flesh-eating maggots. It could take more than a year to eradicate the ...

Vast permafrost beneath the upper slopes of Peru’s tallest volcano could become a regional water source as glaciers in the ...

A newly-described dinosaur, Jian changmaensis, may have glided through northwestern China about 120 million years ago, ...