Traces of a previously unknown group of people, genetically distinct from their neighbors, have persisted for at least 8,000 ...

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Our Solar System orbits the galactic center at an estimated 792,000 kilometers per hour, taking 225 million Earth years to ...

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A strange phenomenon thought to only exist near the Sun has been detected in Earth's magnetic field for the first time.

A resident of Washington state has died after contracting a rare strain of bird flu previously only reported in animals, ...

A black seed, long used in cooking and traditional medicine, has shown promise in lowering cholesterol levels in a new ...

The Milky Way contains more than 100 billion stars, each following its own evolutionary path through birth, life, and ...

It is a scientific consensus that water once flowed on Mars, and that it had a denser atmosphere, meaning that it was once habitable.

A new pill for treating dementia is delivering promising "topline" results in early-stage clinical trials, according to a recent press release by its makers.

Although we humans have changed our environment in many ways during the past few thousand years, we are still changed by ...

Scientists have just discovered an incredible superpower hidden away in the tissues of the fern Blechnum orientale, a plant ...