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A new record for maintaining plasma burning inside a fusion reactor has been set in France, beating China's previous benchmark by 25%.

"Even the strongest hurricanes in the solar system seem calm in comparison."

The likelihood of asteroid 2024 YR4 hitting Earth in 2032 rose and fell last week. NASA's impact odds are now so slim that the asteroid is no longer a hazard on the Torino asteroid scale.

Pope Francis is being treated in hospital for double pneumonia — but what is this condition, and why might the pope be particularly vulnerable to it?

Learn what happens inside the body during an asthma attack and why treatments help prevent or reverse the effects.

Competing theories explain how dogs came to be domesticated from wolves. Now, a new study adds further support to the idea that they domesticated themselves.

Google's second generation of its AI mathematics system combines a language model with a symbolic engine to solve complex geometry problems better than International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) gold medalists.

These 2,500-year-old coins are the origin of our monetary system.

Linguists give the lowdown on whether it is possible to forget your native language.

An analysis of the origins of seven severed skulls with nails through them shows that some people treated this way in Iron Age Spain were local while others came from afar.

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it looks like. Now, new simulations may have given them a first glimpse.

At Kruger National park, a wildlife photographer spotted a giraffe covered in hundreds of skin lesions that may be caused by a rare bovine papillomavirus.

Greenland's ice sheet has been losing a staggering amount of ice at an accelerating rate. A tipping point could come by the turn of the next century, a new study warns.

Beautifully captured by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), this image shows interstellar gas and dust lit up by a dead star in Cassiopeia.

The round little pads on cats' paws are more than just cute — they're a feat of evolution that serve many important functions.

A new report details the bird flu cases of two pet cats in Michigan whose owners work in the dairy industry. Earlier in the month, a data table from the report briefly appeared on the CDC website before being taken down.

"The Phoenix cluster has the largest reservoir of hot, cooling gas of any galaxy cluster."

Global warming is raising the body temperature of Australian crocodiles, forcing them to spend less time diving and more time cooling down.

"This line of attack in the War on Cancer has had few meaningful outcomes for cancer patients."

Chinese scientists have announced details on the upcoming China Space Station Telescope (CSST), a cutting-edge observatory that will rival the JWST.