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Archaeologists have found 188 medieval reliquaries during excavations at a square in Berlin. Some of them still contain human bones of people considered to be saints or holy.

Officials say they've eradicated northern giant hornets, nicknamed "murder hornets," after years of tracking the invasive giant wasps in Washington state.

Scientists investigating the frozen Lake Enigma in Antarctica discovered an ecosystem teeming with strange microbial communities.

The Denmark Strait cataract is a sloping portion of the seafloor between Iceland and Greenland that funnels cold water from the Nordic Seas into the Irminger Sea, fueling Atlantic Ocean currents.

The declaration of a state of emergency in California over avian influenza comes within days of the first severe human case of bird flu in the U.S.

A new magnetic survey of the ancient Assyrian capital of Khorsabad has revealed several structures, including a villa, buried underground.

A Japanese astronomer captured several impacts on the moon during the Geminid meteor shower.

With legs and wings, the RAVEN can take off with no runway, and even hop along the ground.

The sacrifices could be an early form of a Scythian burial tradition that lasted for hundreds of years.

Researchers detected flame retardants in household items made from recycled black plastic. The study later received a correction — but regardless of this paper, the chemicals' health effects remain unclear.

Scientists at CERN's ALICE detector are replicating conditions found during the Big Bang, attempting to get to the bottom of how matter came to dominate over antimatter.

Galaxies in the early universe tend to be clumpy, but the new JWST discovery of a "grand design" spiral galaxy just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang has scientists stumped.

Fossilized plant remains discovered near a Utah ghost town have stumped scientists, who are unable to link them to any modern or extinct plants.

The remains of ancient bronze statues, including sculpted snakes up to 35 inches long, have been found within a hot spring in Italy.

Ground squirrels have turned into carnivorous killers in a local park after vole numbers exploded in Contra Costa County, California.

The life-size clay figurines offer new insights into the organization and structure of China's army 2,000 years ago.

The robot's flexible arms are a technology demonstration that could one day aid in satellite maintenance and space debris management.

As fatal familial insomnia progresses, patients completely stop sleeping and enter a coma-like state that results in death within months.

A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized with the United States' first serious case of H5N1 bird flu, following 60 milder cases this year.

DIY-ers in northern Holland filled a large gap in a tile floor with precisely sliced cow bones several centuries ago.