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It's a story that involves scales, sloughs — and spectacles.

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has teamed up with the MeerKAT radio telescope array to explore how magnetic fields affect star formation at the chaotic center of the Milky Way.

New discoveries challenge old ideas about the earliest alphabets.

If humans had a similar body ratio to the northern giant mouse lemur, their testicles would be the size of grapefruits.

Female kangaroos have one tail, two feet and three vaginas when they're giving birth.

When quantum computers become commonplace, current cryptographic systems will become obsolete. Scientists are racing to get ahead of the problem and keep our data secure.

References Smart scales track changes in your muscle mass, body fat percentage and other health metrics — but how do they work?

A man with a complex medical history ended up with a rare bacterial infection after taking probiotics in the hospital.

Earth from space A 2014 satellite image captured a rare glimpse of a massive, eerily circular ring of clouds that formed slap-bang in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

This tiny bird sculpture was created 40,000 years ago by early humans in Europe who carved the key animals in their lives.