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Combing the strandline often delivers a pocketful of cockles and other clam shells with a neat hole close to where the hinge would have been, in a thickened region of the shell called the umbo.

The hole is a precision job – rounded, smooth and…

New evidence suggests that a comet explosion over North America may have triggered a massive wave of destruction nearly 13,000 years ago, killing off mammoths and mastodons and wiping out one of the continent’s oldest human cultures….

The world is a mysterious place, which gives Live Science plenty of fodder for our popular Life’s Little Mysteries series that runs every weekend. We’ve been writing mysteries since 2004, and we still haven’t run out of weird things to cover….

China has decided to take hypergravity to a whole new level – testing both materials and fundamental physics in a regime we have not been able to explore in the lab. After breaking the record for most powerful centrifuge in September last year,…

In 2018, scientists described a new species of spider-like arachnid that lived 100 million years ago. Like modern spiders, it had spinnerets, a palpal organ for sperm transfer, and four paired walking limbs. Very much unlike modern spiders,…

Our cells may literally ripple with electricity, acting as a hidden power supply that could help transport materials or even play a role in our body’s communication.

Researchers from the University of Houston and Rutgers University in the US…

A few years ago, asteroid mining was all the rage. With the commercial space sector rapidly growing, the dream of commercializing space seemed almost imminent.

Basically, the notion of having platforms and spacecraft that could rendezvous and…

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While hiking with his father through Alberta’s Horseshoe Canyon, 12-year-oldNathan Hrushkin stumbled upon a fossil jutting from the rock. It turned out to be part of a 69-million-year-old dinosaur, later identified as a juvenile hadrosaur….