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On a young Earth, giant meteors might have been a harbinger of life, not death.

Researchers have discovered a new extinct species of coelacanth that lived 380 million years ago.

A new type of ultrafast memory uses optical signals and magnets to efficiently process and store data.

The northern sea robin is a strange-looking fish with legs that it uses to "taste" the seafloor.

Nevada is becoming a major producer of lithium, thanks to topography, climate, and geologic serendipity.

Revisiting a disease that affected a million people might provide answers we need for the future.

NOAA shared new images taken by the world's first operational space-based coronagraph, CCOR-1, captured during a solar storm outburst.

The far-reaching impact of certain viruses on the body can make cells grow out of control, causing cancer.

Scientists have just broken a 100-year-old chemistry rule and synthesized a type of 3D, unstable molecule called an anti-Bredt olefin.

The remains of a 5,000-year-old structure that likely had cultic purposes is one of the oldest public buildings ever found in Israel.

Startup Clone Robotics has created an ultra-creepy humanoid torso with artificial muscles that are activated through a battery-powered hydraulic system and covered in ghostly-white "skin."

Physiological traits that help Tibetan women survive at high altitudes are being selected for within the population, meaning they may be becoming more common, new research hints.

Eating licorice regularly, in large quantities or with certain medications can cause serious side effects. But why is that?

Vietnam's Son Doong cave is so large, you could squeeze 15 Great Pyramids of Giza inside it and fly a Boeing 747 airplane through some of its passages.

Quantum computers will one day outpace the fastest supercomputers on the planet, but what will they be used to accomplish?

While such organisms may or may not exist in the universe, the research has important implications for future human endeavors in space.

An artist's rendering of a black hole

Scientists reprogrammed a woman's fat cells to become insulin-making beta cells, reversing her type 1 diabetes.

A father and daughter team based in the U.S. have decoded a mock "alien signal" beamed from ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter a year ago — but the meaning of the extraterrestrial message remains a mystery.

With record-high Mediterranean temperatures and a year's worth of rain falling in mere hours, Spain has been devastated by the weather phenomenon known as DANA.