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Solar storms batter Earth every year, creating the occasional aurora and sometimes even paralyzing power grids. But these common phenomena pale in comparison to a monstrous event that inundated the planet with particles from the Sun around 14,300…

Horses migrated back and forth repeatedly between North America and Eurasia, during the Late Pleistocene. But when a warming environment flooded a land bridge, it cut off travel between the continents, leading to both the decline of the horses in…

Geologists turned to tiny bubbles to investigate the dynamics driving magma flow beneath Hawaii’s volcanoes as the country’s islands drift northwest on a tectonic plate. They found that, as the islands slip away from the hotspot that fuels…

We tend to think of silence as empty space. The absence of sound. But, it turns out that quiet isn’t passive at all. In fact, after just three days of intentional silence, the brain begins to physically and functionally rewire…

When arsenic is mentioned, many people associate it with a bygone poison. The type of quiet killer used in a murder mystery set on a train somewhere in Victorian England. It seems like a problem of the past.

However, arsenic is a naturally…

With only two female northern white rhinoceros left on Earth, conventional breeding techniques to bring them back from the brink of extinction are no longer an option. Scientists, now turning to advanced reproductive technology to save the…

Whether it’s calluses, osteoarthritis, or the “phone pinky,” our hands tell a story and can reveal a lot about the lives we live and the daily items we use. But what about the hands of our ancient human relatives?

According to a new study,…

Last August, KJ Muldoon was born with a potentially fatal genetic disorder. Just six months later, he received a Crispr treatment designed just for him.

Muldoon has a rare disorder known as CPS1 deficiency, which causes a dangerous amount of…

In recent decades, researchers have consistently explored new ways to tackle the global obesity epidemic. While existing methods show significant results, such as the dramatic, long-term weight loss from bariatric surgery or the flexible,…

Ginger cats are the result of a bizarre genetic mutation that doesn’t occur in any other species – at least, as far as scientists know.

That’s according to a study, recently published in Current Biology, which found orangeness occurred…