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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…

Footprints dating back 800,000 years have been uncovered on a beach in Norfolk, England, offering one of the oldest direct records of early human presence in northern Europe. Discovered at Happisburgh, these ancient impressions, left by both…

It’s a well-known fact that supermassive black holes (SMBH) play a vital role in the evolution of galaxies.

Their powerful gravity and the way it accelerates matter in its vicinity causes so much radiation to be released from the core region —…

A new NASA study of its Apollo lunar soils clarifies the Moon’s record of meteorite impacts and timing of water delivery. These findings place upper bounds on how much water meteorites could have supplied later in Earth’s…

We know what will happen to the Sun and our Solar System because we can look outward into the galaxy and examine older Sun-like stars in their evolutionary end states.

Nothing lasts forever, including a star’s fuel. Eventually, stars deplete…

A Southern California whale-watching group on Wednesday enjoyed a rare and spectacular encounter with perhaps 20 orcas that were hunting sea lions close to shore at one of the Channel Islands.

“We witnessed these apex predators combing the…

Snow? Ice? How to make sense of winter storm forecasts

A sharp plunge in ocean calcium levels may be the missing link in Earth’s long transition from a hot, dinosaur-era greenhouse to the cooler, polar-capped world of today. A new study reveals that this 66-million-year cooling trend may not…