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A 3.4-million-year-old foot discovered in Ethiopia is reshaping how scientists see early hominin diversity. Far from bei...

December brings the northern hemisphere's brightest annual meteor display: the Geminids. This shower often outshines the...

Microplastics are more than an environmental nuisance: tiny fragments of plastic in sand and seawater can host diverse b...

Earth's long-term climate swings — the alternation between ice ages and warmer intervals — are often explained by Milank...

New genetic research links common blood-group variants to a modest change in the chance of having a stroke before age 60...

Researchers at Northwestern University have built a soft, wireless implant that communicates with the brain using patter...

Scientists have discovered an unlikely timekeeper for Arctic sea ice: microscopic particles from space. By tracking trac...

A sperm donor who carried a rare cancer-risk gene has been linked to nearly 200 children born across multiple countries,...

We picture giant exoplanets as oversized Jupiters — banded, stormy and familiar. New observations and atmospheric models...

New observational research published in Neurology suggests that common GLP-1 diabetes medications—brands such as Ozempic...

A naturally occurring compound in cocoa — theobromine — is drawing fresh scientific attention for its potential links to...

A novel gene therapy developed in London has put patients with a rare and aggressive form of leukemia into lasting remis...

New research shows that pregnant people who drink well water downstream of PFAS contamination face markedly higher risks...

What looks like an ordinary rock can hide a lost world. In southeast Romania, a 3.5-kilogram stone used for decades as a...

New research from Yale offers a clear biochemical explanation for a long-observed fact: regular exercise reduces cancer ...

New long-term research in rhesus monkeys suggests that a modest, sustained reduction in calorie intake—around 30 percent...

Astronomers using a smart mix of space-based star tracking and Subaru Telescope imaging have uncovered two rare companio...

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has returned its first detailed look at TRAPPIST-1e, one of seven Earth-sized worlds o...

New international research shows that soaring temperatures are doing more than stressing ecosystems and public health—th...

A new, wafer-thin brain implant called BISC promises to change how humans communicate with machines. Combining extreme m...