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A Stone Age woman buried with male-associated…

The tiniest life forms are also among Earth’s toughest, from near-invincible tardigrades to extremophilic microbes that thrive near volcanoes and hydrothermal vents. But could some of these itsy-bitsy creatures survive a…

Physicists may have a brand-new way to measure the expansion rate of the universe — one of the biggest outstanding mysteries in cosmology — using space-time ripples predicted by Einstein.

A new study suggests that the faint gravitational…

A gold coin minted more than 1,000 years ago as an imitation of a more famous coin may be a relic of the “Great Heathen Army” that invaded England in 865 — an invasion that led to the Viking kingdom there known as the Danelaw.

According to the…

A research team led by scientists at the University of Waterloo, Ontario is developing a novel tool to treat cancer by engineering hungry bacteria to literally eat tumors from…

Two bottles of beer, recovered from a shipwreck off the Åland Islands in Finland, have provided scientists with a rare chance to examine beer from the 1840s. The ship, which sank over 170 years ago, was carrying a mix of luxury goods,…

More than 280 million years ago, in the early Permian period, the complex dynamics of predator and prey were already shaping life on Earth. Researchers have uncovered remarkable evidence from fossilized skeletons of young herbivores,…

Fecal transplants from old mice boost fertility in younger ones

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The rise of carbon dioxide (CO₂) in Earth’s atmosphere is detectable and measurable in the blood of its human inhabitants, a new study suggests.

In 20 years’ worth of health data from a US population database, scientists have found shifts in…

NASA’s Lunar Trailblazer probe didn’t exactly live up to its name after it launched from Kennedy Space Center last year. The $72 million satellite—designed to map and study water across the surface of the Moon—