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From a giant venomous centipede to a tiny but horrendous worm - here are some of the Amazon's most deadly animals

Researchers studied six pieces of amber containing fossilized ants with other insects nearby revealing an ecosystem in the Cretaceous period.

New geological data indicate that marine life is somewhat resilient to warming in the tropics. Chris Fokkema, Earth scientist at Utrecht University, discovered that tropical algae were largely unaffected by a number of periods of global warming of up to 1.5 d…

NASA's groundbreaking James Webb Space Telescope has given us an astonishingly detailed peek inside the layers of Uranus' upper atmosphere.

Santa Barbara County launched the new Community Hazard Awareness Map to help everyone understand and prepare for hazards.

The types of glass that we encounter in everyday life, such as window glass or smartphone screens, are disordered solids. This means that they consist of particles locked in place, like those in solids, but arranged randomly, similarly to how they would be in…

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Iron isotopes show that salty seawater pockets beneath the ice were as cold as −15°C.

Female caribou may be lugging around antlers for a reason that has less to do with defense and more to do with their diets. A new study of more than 1,500 shed antlers taken from...

A newly published study suggests that the immune system may play a role in why recovery from pain differs in men and women.

For March, “Eyes to the Skies” runs down upcoming space events including a total lunar eclipse, Zodiacal Light and spring’s arrival.

One of the least-known creatures on Earth has surfaced alive for the first time, ending a long-standing marine mystery.

Jupiter may be the king of planets in our Solar System, but in other star systems across the galaxy, even larger planets orbit billions of miles from their stars – in places where traditional formation theories struggle to explain them.

Elon Musk says his obsession with the red planet is cooling.

A 90-million-year-old fossil from Argentina is challenging what scientists believed about tiny dinosaurs.

Q&A with cognitive neuroscientist Steve Fleming: What the science of self-awareness can tell us about confident decision-making

Two separate NASA missions detected unusual signals on Mars, a strange sound on the surface and a rare reading from orbit, and scientists are still trying to understand what they mean.

Ancient followers of the Eleusinian Mysteries may have used a highly toxic fungus to create psychedelic hallucinations during their rituals, a new chemical analysis suggests.

Astronomers have long known the universe is expanding—but exactly how fast remains one of the biggest mysteries in cosmology. Different techniques for measuring the Hubble constant stubbornly disagree, creating the so-called “Hubble tension.” Now researchers …

March 2026 could be the best month for the northern lights until the mid-2030s, as celestial mechanics and solar activity combine for potentially potent results.

The first bubble of hot gas seen around another star has been spotted around the "Moth," just 117 light-years away.

Your weight doesn't change because of gravity but because the floor pushes back. Physicists explain why elevators briefly make you feel heavier or lighter.

In 1974, physicist Stephen Hawking described the potential for tiny, primordial black holes that existed at the dawn of time to explode — and reshaped what we knew about these cosmic behemoths.