Ancient hunter-gatherers in East Asia are remarkably similar, genetically, to modern people living in the area. Unlike what ...

Scientists testing potential treatments for sleep apnea made an unexpected discovery. How quickly people react may depend on ...

Scientists graded every river and stream in the contiguous United States, flagging specific repairs each one needs to support ...

New evidence may resolve a longstanding archaeological puzzle in Peru. A vast line of thousands of holes dug into a ridge in the foothills of the Andes Mountains served as a regional marketplace for ...

The 10th century treatment called Bald’s eyesalve attacks microbes in multiple ways. Molecule mixtures from it may inspire ...

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Avian flu, overfishing, and a super El Niño have decimated Peru’s largest colony of Humboldt penguins. Scientists are holding ...

Before the sun fully formed, tiny bits of rock were already recording the magnetic forces present in the very early solar ...

Season 2 follows people losing their ability to speak — and the AI and brain implants helping them find their voices again.

The rare fossil hints that differences in plumage may explain why some Cretaceous-era birds survived an asteroid impact but ...

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Space scientists aren’t so sure. As light travels from space to the ground, it scatters off molecules in the atmosphere, says ...