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In Siberian permafrost, scientists thawed ancient soil and saw tiny nematodes move. These animals “woke up” after an extremely long freeze and resumed life functions in the lab.

Their revival raises clear scientific questions and practical…

SpaceX will notch two big milestones on a single Falcon 9 launch today (Oct. 19), and you can watch the action live.

A Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch 28 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station…

Most events in the universe are not fully understood,…

When scientists first spotted long, narrow gullies carved into the sand dunes of Mars, some believed they could be signs of past life – or at least of flowing water.

That hope has fizzled for now. But it turns out something else entirely may be…

Back pain is on the rise. Around the world, a staggering 619 million people – around one in 13 of us – suffer from back pain. By 2050, it’s expected that number will rise to around 843 million. For some, it steals the sunshine from…

When you wake up in the morning, it might feel like your brain just switched on at the ring of an alarm, although you still might feel groggy for a while. But the actual process the brain goes through to wake up is a gradual, coordinated event….

Earth carries an invisible ocean “water level” called the geoid. If only gravity and rotation shaped the oceans, the surface would match that geoid everywhere. However, south of India, the geoid sinks sharply.

At the center of this sunken…

A star died in a way that astronomers had long suspected but never seen so clearly. Its remains show two separate layers of debris, the calling card of a double explosion.

The object sits in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a nearby dwarf galaxy about…