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Science word of the day: CovalentPronunciation: Coh-VAY’-lentWhat it means: In chemistry, a covalent bond occurs when two atoms share a pair of electrons. Electrons zip around atomic nuclei at different…
The Navajo Nation is bringing license plate reader cameras to its sprawling 27,000-square-mile reservation under a new partnership with a controversial private surveillance company. The nation’s partnership with Flock Safety…
Bats have long posed an immunological mystery: They can harbor viruses that cause severe diseases in other animals, including humans, yet they rarely show signs of illness. Now, scientists have…
It looks like the stuff of nightmares. But Beau G., the 40-year-old California Satyress startup founder, sees his chainsaw-wielding “humanoid” robot — which just went viral on X — as a…
Traces of two “ghost lineages” of extinct human populations lie hidden within our genome, a new study reveals.One of these ghost lineages left its DNA scattered in all present-day people.…
Astronomers may have just found a first-of-its-kind phenomenon buried in the shadow of one of the Milky Way’s most famous stellar explosions: two stars that died in separate supernovas, after…
Whale sharks may be the biggest fish in the ocean, but their feeding habits have remained mysterious. Now, new camera footage from the backs of these gentle giants has captured…
Two Chilean mummies have provided scientists with the earliest known smallpox genomes found in the Americas, dating between 1492 and 1631.The genomes are the first-ever DNA evidence that proves European…
Archaeologists excavating in the famous prehistoric Hohle Fels cave in Germany have uncovered two bird figurines carved from mammoth ivory. The thumbnail-size carvings add to the existing evidence that ice…
Inflammation may be behind a mysterious phenomenon known as dissociation, a mental state that includes “out-of-body” experiences and the feeling that the world is “unreal,” emerging research suggests.Scientists have long…