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The sudden rise of a huge network…

Measles has been so rare in many countries that some physicians have never seen a case…

Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender…

Baby long-necked dinosaurs might have been the fast food of the Jurassic Period. A detailed food web of the time, reconstructed from fossil data, shows that the young not-yet-giants almost single-handedly supported predator populations of…

The Thwaites Glacier, often called the “Doomsday Glacier” for its potential to drastically raise sea levels, has been the focus of an ambitious study led by researchers from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) and the Korea Polar Research…

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST ) was designed to look back in time and study galaxies that existed shortly after the Big Bang. In so doing, scientists hoped to gain a better understanding of how the Universe has evolved from the…

io9 is proud to present fiction from Lightspeed Magazine. Once a month, we feature a story from Lightspeed’s current issue. This month’s selection is “Death Echoes Overlapping” by Megan Chee. Enjoy!

Death Echoes…

Around 90% of people are infected with Epstein-Barr virus at some point in their lifetimes. For most of them, the virus causes a mild, transient illness or no symptoms at all. But for a subset of people, Epstein-Barr can eventually contribute…

In 2022, a mysterious Archaeopteryx fossil was uncovered at the Field Museum in Chicago, revealing an incredible feature that had never been seen before in the fossil record. The discovery, which took over a year to prepare, has provided…

The spotted lanternfly has spread across the United States with unrelenting speed — and now we have a clue as to why: living in cities seems to have helped these invasive insects evolve to be more resistant to stresses.

“Cities may act as…