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Astronauts on board China's "heavenly palace" space station have demonstrated a new way of making rocket fuel products and breathable oxygen by mimicking a chemical reaction in plants. The technology could be utilized in China's planned moon base.

A newly translated papyrus found in Israel provides information about criminal cases and slave ownership in the Roman Empire.

Scientists have found all five nucelobases alongisde minerals essential for life as we know it on the potentially hazardous asteroid Bennu.

A minor earthquake has hit Yellowstone National Park, and some people in the region experienced a tremor. The magnitude 3.9 earthquake struck near Norris Geyser Basin, which has a history of quakes.

Most exposures to black widow spider venom are accidental, but in a rare medical case, the exposure was intentional.

By modifying 20 regions of the genome, scientists successfully bred mice with two male parents and raised them to maturity.

An ongoing tuberculosis outbreak in two Kansas counties has sickened dozens since January 2024.

By achieving a top speed of Mach 1.1, Boom Supersonic has broken records and is on course to revive supersonic passenger travel.

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has released a new image generator, Janus-Pro-7B, which the company says is better than competitors.

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has moved its Doomsday Clock closer to Armageddon than ever before.

An artificial intelligence model has created a new protein that researchers say would have taken 500 million years to evolve in nature — if nature were capable of producing such a thing.

How did woolly mammoths survive the last ice age? And how thick was the ice over New York City? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz.

People with aphantasia still generate brain activity when attempting to visualize, but that image may be getting lost in translation, a new study suggests.

Earth from space This 2022 satellite photo shows the summit of "one of the world's most dangerous volcanoes," Mount Vesuvius, peering up through a strange gap in the clouds.

A hoard of over 400 coins dated to the first century is a rare mix of Roman and British money.

Fathers exposed to high stress in childhood had different epigenetic markers that may affect their offspring, though more research is needed.

Mars' southern hemisphere absorbs a lot of the sun's energy during the Red Planet's spring, and that may be causing Mars' dust storms, a new study suggests.

The unusual burial of a woman and fetus in prehistoric Ecuador may reflect the community's fear of her power.

A long roll of cloth embroidered with key scenes from British history is a unique medieval chronicle.

Humans don't have hollow bones like birds do, so how big would our wings have to be to lift us off the ground?