For most of the day and night, koalas barely move. They nap curled into tree forks, or chew carefree on eucalyptus leaves.

In the waters off Madagascar’s northeast coast, archaeologists say they have uncovered the final resting place of a ship ...

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Atomic clocks — among the most precise instruments humans have ever built — have been keeping track of Earth’s spin since the ...

According to a provocative new study, that might just be our cosmic address. This idea is meant to solve one of the biggest ...

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“These objects collect the dark matter that helps them become a dark dwarf. The more dark matter you have around, the more ...

A chimpanzee named Juma turned out to be quite the trendsetter. He picked up a blade of grass and stuck it in his ear, a ...

Researchers from the University of Sydney have developed a system that mimics natural selection inside living mammalian cells ...

The drug is Ambroxol. It’s been used for decades to treat respiratory ailments by thinning mucus and easing coughs. But now, ...

Chimp and Neanderthal faces grow beyond adolescence, which explains their more rugged features. Credit: AI-generated image by ChatGPT 4o. Our faces don’t just distinguish us from other people ...

Some Cells are “Unaware” The main objective of this study was to explore how cells and tissues respond to the death of the organism they once belonged to. “In life, genetic and epigenetic ...