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For more than 60 million years, venomous snakes have slithered across Earth.

These ancient, chemical weapon-wielding reptiles owe their evolutionary success in part to the effectiveness of their bite, which they deliver at an astonishing speed…

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A green comet continues to shine brightly after sunset for skywatchers in the Northern Hemisphere. For observers on Thursday, Oct. 23, Comet Lemmon (C/2025 A6) — also the fainter and Comet SWAN (C/2025 R2) — are relatively easy to find…

When archaeologists lifted a skeleton from beneath a parking lot in Leicester in 2012, they suspected they had found England’s most contentious king, Richard III. Blunt force trauma to the skull matched battlefield accounts, and a pronounced…

That seemingly changes as of now, with new argon dating of strata from the Naashoibito Member in the San Juan Basin of present-day New Mexico. Many dinosaur fossils have been obtained from this region, and we know the site…

A clinical trial testing a diabetes medication and an insulin nasal spray has found that both drugs, in combination and alone, safely tackle different aspects of mild cognitive decline that is often seen in early Alzheimer’s disease,…

Elusive Cures

Nicole C. Rust Princeton Univ. Press (2025)

Over the past few decades, brain research has produced effective treatments for pain, insomnia, postpartum depression, paralysis and spinal muscular atrophy, but some trials for…

Artificial intelligence (AI) models are 50% more sycophantic than humans, an analysis published this month has found.

The…