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A decade or so after earning a PhD is a pivotal stage in a person’s academic career. The urgency of establishing your career has faded — you are probably no longer scrambling to secure your first grant or write your…

For more than a century, dinosaur footprints have been both a gift and a headache. They’re some of the most direct evidence we have of animals moving through real landscapes, but they’re also notoriously hard to interpret.

A footprint is not…

For years, the Silverpit Crater sat under the North Sea as one of geology’s most awkward arguments. It had the circular shape, the uplifted center, and the faulted rings that made it look like an impact crater. But that was not enough….

The passage of time may be linear, but the course of human aging is not.

Rather than a gradual transition, your life staggers and lurches through the rapid growth of childhood and the plateau of early adulthood, to an acceleration in aging as…

Update March 20, 12 p.m. EDT (1600 UTC): NASA…

Summary: Survival is often painted as a “lonely” race, but new research suggests that for social species, the group functions as a single, self-correcting organism.

The study reveals that the prefrontal cortex (the brain’s decision-making…

MEDINA, Ohio (AP) — Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week…

Influential vaccine advisory panel may be ‘disbanded’ after lawsuit, says former vice chair