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Many types of body modification date back hundreds or thousands of years, revealing our ancient ancestors were not that different from us.

In some parts of the world, more than a billion years of geologic history is missing. Now a team of scientists think they know why.

Small, smart and beginner-friendly, the SeeStar S50 takes the hassle out of stargazing, delivering detailed nebula and galaxy shots at the tap of your screen.

The experimental manufacturing process could one day deliver a vehicle with a 1,000-plus mile range, researchers say.

A startup wants to light up the night sky using giant mirrors in space. The idea could extend daylight for solar farms and nighttime operations.

A long-term study uncovers a massive freshwater influx transforming the Southern Indian Ocean and reshaping how scientists understand global ocean circulation.

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out why.

Scientists have reconstructed the face of one of the most famous hominin fossils.

An academic dives into the physics of multiple dimensions and whether it's possible to tie a knot in 4D.

"Every night — every minute — is precious."

Electrons can be "kicked across" solar materials at almost the fastest speed nature allows, scientists have discovered, challenging long-held theories about how solar energy systems work. The finding could help researchers design more efficient ways of harves…

The fossilised bones of our ancestors remain silent. So, how can we possibly imagine what our earliest languages sounded like?

A NASA luminary from the Apollo era grew up in Wales near Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch.

We all have a concept of reality. We know what is “fact” and what isn’t. However, the truth of the matter is that the definition of “real” is a mere construct of the brain. If that didn’t blow your mind, this list has a lot more where that came from. These are responses from a recent Reddit thread,

Four cemetery workers dug up and moved more than 100 bodies to resell the burial plots nearly 20 years ago

Despite sounding like something out of pulpy '50s sci-fi, 'space lasers' are real – and astrophysicists have now spotted the brightest and most distant one yet.

Deep within Earth’s mantle lie two enormous regions, often referred to as "islands," which are the size of continents.

What We do The High-Speed Flight (HSF) project develops technologies that make high-speed, airbreathing, commercial flight possible from Mach 1 to Mach 5 and above. HSF creates tools, technologies, and knowledge that will help eliminate today’s technical barriers to practical supersonic flight, most

Satellite images show how the dramatic loss of sea ice in Antarctica is transforming the marine food chain, with salps replacing krill as the new dominant species in the region.

NASA announced it had found the source of a helium flow blockage that forced it to roll the Artemis II rocket back from the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center and delay its lunar fly-by mission until at least April.

Brazil's Butantan Institute identified a new mite larvae, Araneothrombium brasiliensis, feeding on a spider in a museum specimen case.

A survey of tropical insect populations and thermal tolerance limits indicates that species from lowland areas have low capacity to survive increased temperatures, and that thermal tolerance is limited by fundamental properties of protein architecture.

Influenza virus mRNAs are stable and competent for nuclear export and translation because they receive a 5′ cap(1) structure in a process called cap snatching1. During cap snatching, the viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (FluPol) binds to host RNA polymerase II (Pol II) and the emerging transcript2

RNA interference (RNAi) depends on DICER, an essential enzyme that processes RNA precursors into small regulatory RNAs. DICER cleaves RNA precursors according to the 5′-end counting rule, in which RNA length is measured from the 5′-end1–3. Previous work proposed a single 5′-end binding pocket that d