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The juvenile pachycephalosaurs, which predates the previous oldest dome-headed dinosaur by 15 million years, reveals more ...

The mystery of how related flightless birds ended up so far apart on different continents may have been solved.

A new NASA study suggests that solar activity will remain high or rise further in the coming decades, contradicting previous ...

The pervasive spread of misinformation can be tracked to cognitive limitations, social influence and the global spread of ...

Jesse Gelsinger died after receiving a gene therapy treatment to treat a liver disease. The death sparked an investigation ...

Shamahi charts humanity's evolutionary odyssey. We sat down with her to discuss the path of our species out of Africa to ...

A study of human placentas suggests that urban air pollution may push the organ's resident immune cells into an inflammatory state.

A discovery in Romania shows the remains of an elite family's treasures from the Roman era that were scorched in a fire.

Less than 400 angle-stemmed myrtle specimens remain in the wild in Australia. Scientists are working on ways to preserve the ...

A new analysis of asteroid Ryugu hints that the "potentially hazardous" space rock once had flowing water in its core, ...

A virus found lurking inside a deadly fungus may make the microbe even stronger and harder to kill when it infects people.