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Frozen droppings of prehistoric ground squirrels are chock-full of DNA from ice-age beasts, including woolly mammoths, a mysterious big cat and a huge array of other organisms, revealing a remarkably…
Earth’s underground fungal network is so vast that, if it were in outer space, it would span roughly 10% of the Milky Way if placed in a straight line, a…
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s artificial intelligence startup Prometheus said Thursday it has secured an eye-popping $41 billion valuation in a new funding round. The AI venture, where Bezos serves as…
A century-old tuberculosis vaccine reduced insulin use in people with diabetes, new clinical trial results suggest. The catch: Research on this vaccine has divided the diabetes research community for years.The…
It’s official: El Niño is here, and it’s shaping up to be among the strongest ever recorded.The natural climate cycle, which supercharges temperatures and shifts weather patterns across the planet,…
With the arrival of the summer solstice on June 21, stargazing becomes a late-night hobby. But June is one of the best months of the year to photograph the Milky…
Many Elon Musk fans hoping to buy a piece of SpaceX will be out of luck on Friday when the rocket firm makes its record-setting public debut, according to a…
Archaeologists in Russia have discovered a rare elite burial of a medieval woman who was accompanied in death by a newborn child and a flayed horse. A mirror and silver…
Canada introduced legislation on Wednesday that could bar children younger than 16 from having social media accounts unless the companies show they can make their platforms safe. Canada is joining…
Scientists have discovered a vast whale graveyard stretching for hundreds of miles in the Indian Ocean, with some fossil bones dating back over 5 million years.The deep-sea “megasite,” which the…