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Remarkable fossils rewrite the story of how animals conquered the land

Palaeontologists have found new evidence that the early ancestors of amphibians, reptiles and mammals did not have a…

Almost the whole of Japan moved eastward after 2011 earthquake

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the…

Waves reflecting off Earth's core shifted Japan after 2011 earthquake

An extremely unusual tectonic movement took place 15 minutes after the Tohoku earthquake in 2011, causing almost the…

Hunter-gatherers in Siberia died of a plague outbreak 5,500 years ago

We can't blame the Neolithic Transition for the plague anymore.

Cosmonaut Aleksandr Samokutyaev, 56, is first former ISS crew member to die

Two expeditions, two spacewalks, 322 days in space.

How Alberta Eradicated Rats

Alberta, Canada has remained rat-free for over 70 years—the largest rat-free area on Earth after Antarctica—by acting…

Carl Sagan's The Demon-Haunted World is still supremely relevant today

Beautifully written, this guide to distinguishing between truth, misinformation and lies, first published in 1995,…

Complex life on Earth may last 500 million years longer than expected

As the sun expands over the coming billions of years, Earth will become inhospitable to any life more complex than a…

Hospitals and universities repurposing drugs at 90% lower cost

Hospitals and universities are conducting late-stage clinical trials to repurpose existing drugs at costs up to 90%…

Seven Perfect Shuffles Randomize a Deck of Cards. But How Many Sloppy Ones?

Mathematicians have extended a decades-old proof about card shuffling to show that a "cutoff phenomenon" occurs even…

NASA picks Eric Schmidt’s rocket company for Mars mission, setting up a race with SpaceX

Relativity Space—a rocket maker acquired by former Google executive chair Eric Schmidt last year after stumbling on the…

Bird flu kills more than 75% of baby seals on remote Australian island, study finds

Scientists say 13,000 southern elephant seal pups on Heard Island have died of the H5N1 strain.

Ancient monument marked summer solstice centuries before Stonehenge

Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from Stonehenge, which…

Ancient monument may have been an early Stonehenge prototype

Archaeologists have discovered traces of a wooden structure built 5000 years ago, 5 kilometres from Stonehenge, which…

Cervical cancer deaths have plummeted thanks to HPV vaccine

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical…

No young women have died of cervical cancer in England for years

We already know the vaccine against human papillomavirus, or HPV, greatly reduces infections and cases of cervical…

Taxonomy of the Occlupanida (parasitoids on bread bag tags)

This article humorously presents a fake "taxonomy" of Occlupanida, fictional parasitoid organisms that supposedly live…

Second carcass-eating fly species cleared by FDA for maggot wound therapy

Maggot therapy lacks robust data, but it has fans and a fail-safe "bacon therapy."

Sooner than expected? Useful quantum error correction promised for 2028.

Elsewhere, beyond-classical quantum hardware, plus classical computing fires back.

Solar in California surpassed natural gas in the first five months of 2026

Solar generation surpassed natural gas in California's grid during the first five months of 2026, with solar…

Chilling the body with drugs could limit brain damage from stroke

Putting brain cells into a hibernation-like state via drugs that cool down core body temperature may help to preserve…

The bigger the lizard, the bigger the Wiki page, discovers ecologist

Feedback is delighted to explore research digging into the relationship between a reptile's body mass and the length of…

AI chemist improves a challenging reaction in medicinal chemistry

Oldest known plague outbreak killed hunter-gatherer children

DNA evidence shows that plague bacteria devastated a community in Siberia more than 5000 years ago, challenging the idea…

Pigeons lock their eyes in place when they are flying

Bird-mounted headsets and backpacks have revealed the surprising things pigeons do with their eyes when on the wing

Our brains have their first thoughts unexpectedly early in life

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious…

Our brains have their first thoughts surprisingly early in life

By the time we’re born, our brains have all the hardware in place to form thoughts, and possibly even some conscious…

French physicist and media star loses doctorate after plagiarism investigation

"Truly evil" FDA rejection of gene therapy overturned after Trump official ousted

Gene therapy company UniQure had another FDA meeting after Vinay Prasad's exit.