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There are currently six accepted kingdoms of life, such as plants, animals, and fungi — and Prototaxites may have represented a seventh life form that’s now extinct.

A tremendously large cloud that blocked the light from a distant star has been found to consist of swirling winds of vaporized metal. Even more curious, the cloud appears to be strangely bound to a mystery body that could be a massive planet or…

How zoos prepare for winter storms

By Jackie Flynn Mogensen

As the first human moon mission in decades approaches two weeks before its prime launch date, NASA has a lot to do before it can get four astronauts into space on Feb. 6.

Artemis 2 is scheduled for a 10-day mission to bring four astronauts…

Many of the body’s processes slow down or falter as we get older, including tissue regeneration. In a new study, researchers detail a promising method to get this vital repair work back up to speed.

The study, from a team at the University of…

Get an x-ray, and you get a small dose of radiation to visualize your bones and body structures to help you medically. Buy a smoke detector, you’re inviting a tiny source of radiation, americium-241, into your home to keep you safe. But we…

AI’s next battleground is your body

By Deni Ellis Béchard edited by Eric Sullivan

NASA is getting ready to launch its massive, fully expendable rocket for the first crewed flight to the Moon since Apollo. The agency’s new era of spaceflight comes with a few parts from its past, specifically three rocket…

Humans — not glaciers — transported Stonehenge’s megaliths across Great Britain to their current location in southern England, a new study confirms.

Scientists have believed for decades that the 5,000-year-old monument’s iconic stones came…