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A new species of tardigrades with thousands of genes that become more active when exposed to radiation could help in devising better protection for astronauts on long missions.

The wheel was likely invented around 6,000 years ago, but a new analysis of curious rocks from Israel suggests that wheel-like technologies existed even earlier.

A small asteroid burned up in Earth's atmosphere off the coast of California just hours after being discovered and before impact monitoring systems had registered its trajectory.

Pluto was demoted from a planet to a dwarf planet in 2006. So why is its status still so controversial today?

Researchers created the most detailed map of the brain's functional networks using data from people watching movies, including "Inception," "Home Alone" and "Erin Brokovich."

Most of us are familiar with the mammoths in "Ice Age," but how much do you really know about these creatures? Find out by taking our quiz.

A study looking at the brain size of different breeds relative to their skulls reveals how humans have altered the species through artificial selection.

The discovery suggests the mysterious "King Arthur's Hall" in England is older than Stonehenge.

Deep-sea researchers have discovered a glowing sea slug with a huge hood that helps the creature feed like a Venus fly trap.

When combined with Qiskit software tools, the 156-qubit R2 Heron quantum processor can perform 5,000 two-qubit gate operations — double the previous best — meaning it's ready for complex quantum computations, IBM scientists say.

A recently shared image of a distant galaxy surrounded by three concentric rings challenges our understanding of galactic taxonomy.

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of years ago.

A man's brain started bleeding just after he got teeth pulled at the dentist's office. Why?

There is a 50% chance that global warming will consistently exceed 1.5 degrees Celsius in the next six years, according to a new report.

A teen in Canada may be the first person to catch an H5 bird flu virus within the country. Health officials are now working to confirm the diagnosis.

An artist's rendering of a black hole

An analysis looking at the hand bones of australopithecines, apes and humans reveals that tool use likely evolved before the Homo genus arose.

The Leonid meteor shower peaks in North America overnight from Nov. 17 to 18, with fast-moving fireballs possible in US skies.

The clonal quaking aspen known as Pando is between 16,000 and 80,000 years old.

The discovery of an impeccably preserved Celtic burial chamber in southern Germany is a "stroke of luck for archaeology," scientists say.