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Ancient DNA unveils two regional populations that lived in what is now Europe and made similar tools but met different fates.

The gene editor will be used in lab dishes in cancer and blood disorder trials, and to directly edit a gene in human eyes in a blindness therapy test.

In all the fuss over planting trillions of trees, we need to protect the forests that already exist.

Cleaner fish recognize themselves in mirrors and photos, suggesting that far more animals may be self-aware than previously thought.

Studying how quarks inside protons move in response to electric fields shows that protons seem to stretch more than theory says they should.

A theory proposed by British mathematician Alan Turing in the 1950s helps explain how fingerprint patterns such as arches and whorls arise.

In the past 13 years, the rotation of the planet’s solid inner core may have temporarily stopped and then started to reverse direction.

A bright streak stretching away from a remote galaxy might be the light from stolen gas and new stars caught in the wake of an escaping black hole.

Studies of posttraumatic growth are fundamentally flawed and can contribute to toxic cultural narratives, researchers say.

Communities in Kenya took action to restore their coastal mangrove forests, reaping economic and environmental benefits. Others are following suit.

Developed by Facebook’s parent company, Meta, the AI could eventually be used to help people who can’t communicate through speech, typing or gestures.

«artificial intelligence can decode words and sentences from brain activity with surprising — but still limited — accuracy»

The argument between Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis 100 years ago was ultimately settled by Edwin Hubble.

In part because of her gender, Tharp was the right person in the right place at the right time to make the first detailed maps of the ocean’s bottom.