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Geologists have resolved a long-standing mystery about how two major rivers in the western United States became connected.

They found that a hidden shift deep underground briefly lowered a mountain barrier, allowing one river to cut straight…

A common shoreline barnacle has been documented piercing deep-sea sharks and extracting nutrients directly from their flesh, marking a complete transition from filter feeding to parasitism.

That shift captures an evolutionary turning point in…

A winter bomb cyclone is expected to bring blizzard conditions across parts of the East Coast from Maryland up through southeastern New England Sunday night into Monday morning. But what, exactly, is a blizzard?

A blizzard doesn’t always mean “a…

Menopause is a key period in a woman’s life. This transition is often accompanied by wide-ranging physical and psychological symptoms — some of which can be debilitating and affect daily life. Menopause has also been linked to cognitive…

The Cambrian period is most famously remembered as an era of biological experimentation, with bizarre creatures such as Hallucigenia, whose body resembled anti-bird spikes, and Wiwaxia, which looked like a medieval flail come to life. But the…

Scientists have many theories about how Earth’s raw materials turned into living cells, but a new proposal is particularly slimy.

In a recent paper, an international team argues that life may have first emerged within a blob of sticky goo…

The past decade ushered in a surge of discovery in the field of human genetics — and simultaneously, more genetic technologies made their way out of the lab and into the consumer marketplace.

This tech includes at-home genetic tests for…

For decades, scientists have been studying intriguing “gravity holes,” which are enormous depressions in the Earth’s crust where the effects of gravity are significantly lower than average.

It’s an especially pertinent phenomenon…

Deep in the cosmos, an enigmatic object emits gamma rays at energies more than 100 TeV, an intensity far beyond what we typically observe. Discovered in 2021 by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), LHAASO J2108+5157 is…

NASA has given its Perseverance Mars rover a powerful new ability to determine its exact location on the Red Planet without waiting for instructions from Earth, effectively giving the six-wheeled explorer its own version of GPS.

Unlike on Earth,…