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Experts lay bare the health effects of breathing in wildfire smoke and the steps that can be taken to reduce one's risk.

Physicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles' entropy.

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe.

Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger's Cat thought experiment, they could have found a way to stop them.

Pluto may have got romantic to capture its largest moon, colliding and engaging in a passionate but icy 10 hour kiss with Charon billions of years ago.

Auroras can generate some truly spectacular images, but what's the best way to photograph the northern lights?

There are around 2 million pieces that make up the Alexander the Great mosaic, but where did they come from?

Argyria is caused by a buildup of silver in the body, which discolors the skin.

In case you forgot it was still up there.

Are UFO sightings a 20th-century phenomena, or did people report seeing them earlier in history?

Hundreds of stone artifacts discovered on a Danish island may have been offered to the gods to ward off a climate crisis.

The FDA will no longer allow red dye No. 3 in foods or ingested drugs, citing evidence that high doses of the dye can cause cancer in male rats. There is no evidence it's carcinogenic in humans.

The Bárðarbunga volcano system was responsible for Iceland's largest eruption for 300 years back in 2014. After a recent increase in seismic activity, could it be about to erupt again?

Antarctica's Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf may be under threat due to relatively warm water from the deep sea flowing towards the shelf. Is climate change to blame?

The bone fragments were once thought to be some of the oldest human fossils found in Japan.

An analysis of dozens of British Iron Age skeletons has revealed that Celtic society was organized around women.

The newly discovered "blazar," which has a mass equal to 700 million suns, is the oldest of its kind ever seen and changes what we know about the early universe.

Excavation of a Roman-era cemetery in France yielded nearly two dozen lead tablets inscribed in Latin and Gaulish.

A rare group of aligned, star-birthing dwarf galaxies resemble a cosmic string of pearls.