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Kentucky-based astrophotographer David Joyce has shared a glorious deep space vista revealing the fossil light of a vast supernova remnant created in the death throes of an enormous star some 10,000 years ago.

Joyce’s nebula scene captures the…

It would be an understatement to say that the Earth’s magnetic field is important. It’s one of the reasons we’re able to live on this rock tumbling through space, and it also gives us the gorgeous aurora borealis. So it’s a pretty big deal when…

Jupiter was shaping Earth’s fate before our planet even existed, carving gaps in the early solar system that kept its building blocks from plunging into the sun, a new study finds.

Led by scientists at Rice University in Houston, the study…

As night falls on October evenings, glance toward the southeast horizon. If there is one star that serves to announce the arrival of fall as the leaves have begun to turn, unquestionably that title would have to go to the brightest star within…

Cancer treatment has come a long way, but many of today’s therapies still come with steep costs: not just financial, but physical and emotional too. Chemotherapy and radiotherapy remain vital tools, yet they often damage healthy cells…

A new multidisciplinary study led by the National Center for Research on Human Evolution (CENIEH), in collaboration with IPHES-CERCA and other Spanish universities, challenges conventional assumptions about the role of scavenging in human…

In what paleontologists are calling a once-in-a-lifetime discovery, miners in Canada unearthed the fossilized remains of a dinosaur so well-preserved it’s been described as a “mummy.” Not only does the specimen retain fossilized skin and…

Astronomers have unveiled a new catalog of massive galaxy clusters, revealing insight on the evolution of the universe.

Galaxy clusters — the largest gravitationally bound structures in the universe — act as cosmic signposts that trace the…

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story:

• The last universal common ancestor (LUCA) is the single life form that branched into everything since.

• Earth four billion years ago may help us check for life on one of Saturn’s moons today.

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Here is what you will learn when you read this story:

• Fossilized human teeth spanning two million years of evolution were studied for lead content, which was surprisingly high.

• To see the effect of lead on the human brain then and now, researchers…