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Octopuses are some of the most mysterious animals living in the sea. In research out today, however, scientists have pulled back the curtain on the male octopus’ penis-like arm, formally known as the hectocotylus.

Researchers…

‘Jaw-dropping’ fossils reset the clock on when complex animals evolved

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Eli Lilly’s once-daily pill orforglipron as a weight loss and obesity treatment this week was the fastest approval of a new medication in decades. Clinical trial results showed that the…

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life.

In the earliest of these changes, a tangled version of a

Octopus sex is even weirder than you think

By Cody Cottier edited by Claire Cameron

Archaeologists in Vietnam have made a discovery that could rewrite scientists’ understanding of where syphilis originated.

The team found the Stone Age skeletons of three people who had a debilitating bacterial disease that left marks on their…

Breadcrumbs from food waste could replace fossil fuels as a source of hydrogen in one of the most common chemical reactions used in chemical manufacturing, new research suggests.

The new process, reported Feb. 23 in the journal Nature Chemistry,…

The world’s best climate models are not capturing the true extent of Earth’s energy imbalance, and scientists aren’t sure why.

Instead of mirroring real-life satellite observations, the models consistently underestimate a growing gap, or…

I’m still reeling from the launch of NASA’s Artemis 2 mission yesterday. As someone who wasn’t around for the Apollo era, seeing astronauts embark on this long-awaited journey to the Moon was nothing short of spectacular.