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It’s easy to think, given the current geopolitical state of the world, that we’re living through an especially terrible time, says Will Newton.

Add to that the possibility that Earth may be undergoing its sixth mass extinction and it’s…

Paleontology may be entering another great era of discovery: characterized by serial misidentification in decades past.

For an example one need look no further than the newly-dubbed…

Grease is the word – at least, it was for Neanderthals living in what is now Germany some 125,000 years ago. New research shows that our extinct cousins collected huge quantities of animal bones at a dedicated “fat factory”, where they…

A plume of molten rock deep beneath eastern Africa is pulsing upward in rhythmic surges, slowly splitting the continent apart and potentially marking the birth of a new ocean.

At least, that’s what a team of researchers led by Emma Watts of the…

A groundbreaking discovery has been made at the Messel Pit, a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Germany. A 47-million-year-old fossil of a true cicada (Eoplatypleura messelensis) was unearthed, marking the earliest record of this insect subfamily in…

In other cases, another member of the system will go on to form a second white dwarf. If gravitational instabilities bring these two objects together, then their collision will create a single object with a much higher…

Astronomers have spotted what they think might be an “interstellar object” hurtling through the solar system — and it’s headed toward us. The visiting space object, potentially the third of its kind ever seen, will make its closest approach to…

The itch of a clothing tag. The seam on the inside of a sock. The tickling of hairs on the back of your neck. For many of us, it’s easy to tune out these sensations as we move through the day. But for some autistic people, everyday…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Astronomers are monitoring an object headed our way that may have wandered over from another star system.

Scientists have discovered what might be only the third known…