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Stone age people may have deliberately ventured into oxygen-depleted caves to paint while having out-of-body experiences and hallucinations, researchers say....

Four dead gray whales have washed up in San Francisco Bay in eight days, prompting fears that the species is under threat in the area....

No animal is less related to you than a sea sponge, and they've got the genes and nerveless, anus-less bodies to prove it....

Space junk is a growing problem. Scientists want to fight it with lasers that can de-twinkle the stars....

Archaeologists in Saudi Arabia have uncovered bones at a burial site that reveal the domestication of dogs in the area happened much earlier than previously believed....

The Japanese government announced plans to dump more than 1 million tons of treated wastewater from the Fukushima nuclear power plant into the ocean, beginning in two years....

These stones were carried more than 600 miles in the 'belly of a dinosaur.'...

A months-long rescue operation transported the last of nine stranded giraffes to their new home in a mainland sanctuary....

A never-before-seen particle known as the odderon has revealed itself in the hot guts of two particle colliders, confirming a 48-year-old theory....

A sparkling fireball zoomed across the sky near West Palm Beach, Florida on Monday night (April 13)....

A third of Antarctica's vast offshore ice shelves would risk collapse into the ocean if the world warms by 4 degrees Celsius (7.2 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels....

The CDC and FDA are recommending a pause in administering the J&J vaccine to investigate reports of 6 cases of rare blood clots....

Fossilized footprints on a beach in Spain were made about 100,000 years ago by a family of Neanderthals, including children who jumped about as if playing in the sand....

A federally funded study taking place at 21 college campuses will test how well Moderna's COVID-19 shot prevents vaccinated people from spreading the coronavirus....

The findings contradict some early research from U.K. health officials....

The north pole of Mars looks even more alien....

Each year, 5,200 tons of space dust fall to Earth, far outweighing larger meteorites that hit the planet....

A monoclonal antibody cocktail developed by Regeneron reduced risk of developing symptomatic COVID-19 by 81% in household contacts living with a positive case, company said....

A baby boy born in Iraq with three penises is the first reported human case of triphallia. He's doing well after surgery....

Before the cosmonaut orbited the Earth, rumors abounded that someone else already had....

NASA has delayed the first flight of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity after the vehicle's last test ended earlier than planned....

The longest sawfish ever measured washed up in Florida, not far from another large specimen....

No, it was part of a concerted and sexist effort by revolutionaries to undermine the queen....

NASA will land the first person of color in addition to the first woman on the moon with the Artemis program, NASA's Acting Administrator Steve Jurczyk revealed today (April 9)....

Humanity's first helicopter on Mars has been cleared for a historic takeoff....

There are three possible explanations....

Finding this rare object was like 'a needle in a haystack,' the researchers said....

Archaeologists have found what may be the greatest Egyptian discovery since King Tut's tomb....

The company hopes to make the vaccine available to the age group before the start of the fall school year....

A woman's chronic itch defied all types of treatment, from steroids to opioids to light therapy, but it finally dissipated after her doctors told her to try cannabis....

There's a one-in-five chance of two large satellites colliding at a relative velocity of 32,679 mph (52,592 kph) over the Siberian Arctic Friday (April 9) — an event that would spew 1.9 tons (1,700 kilograms) of debris across Earth's orbital...

La Soufrire volcano on the Caribbean island of St. Vincent erupted explosively Friday, spewing ash tens of thousands of feet into the air....

Here's a quick guide to the COVID-19 vaccines now in use around the world....

Astrophysicists have found a new region of the Milky Way, and it's filled with searingly hot, bright-blue stars that are about to explode....

Three years from today, on Monday, April 8, 2024, more than half a billion people across North America have the chance to see another Great American Solar Eclipse....

Adding speed bumps to a road in a national park in Zanzibar has reduced the number of collisions between cars and one of Africa's rarest primates....

A team has offered a way for gravitational wave events called dark sirens to resolve a crisis in cosmology...

The map likely represents an area along the River Odet in western France....

Misinformation about ivermectin has led some people to take the drug for COVID-19....

Loggerhead turtles use "thermal corridors" to swim from Japan to Mexico, a new study suggests....

Early humans dispersed out of African with "primitive" brains....

Find out what black holes are, who discovered them, how we know they exist and what would happen if you fell into a black hole....

The permanent oxygenation of Earth's atmosphere took twice as long as previously believed and finally finished up to 100 million years later than expected....

Scientists in China have discovered a new species of deadly snake and have named it after a shape-shifting snake goddess from Chinese mythology....

No leaves, no limbs — just hundreds of grey, lifeless trunks....

People with major depression had accelerated cellular aging by an average of two years compared to healthy controls....

A rare autoimmune disorder decimated the cartilage and bone in a woman's nose, causing her nose to collapse and sink into her face....

But this may not be the end of the story....

The COVID-19 vaccine made by AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford can sometimes cause unusual blood clots, accompanied by abnormally low platelets....

"Memento Mori" was written around the skull on the ring....