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New findings challenge idea that human bodies simply got bigger and bigger over time in a steady line

High-severity fires burn 30 times more acreage than 40 years ago, researchers find

Crashing insect populations lead to smaller tree swallows that reproduce less

Astronomers want to build a swarm of telescopes to find life

What made prehistoric communities resilient? Ancient social networks may hold the answer

Underwater expedition charts seaweed forests in the remote waters of southern Patagonia

How thousands of nature's longest sperm squeeze into a tiny fruit fly

Why do cats groom each other? Research found that it is not always friendly

Researchers reveal Hong Kong as a 'biodiversity ark' for yellow-crested cockatoos and expand nesting support

Webb spots the birth of a giant galaxy and a supermassive black hole

Broken time-reversal symmetry phase in kagome metals may establish conditions for superconductivity

Researchers reveal the pathogenesis of a rare respiratory disease through super-resolution microscopy

CRISPR safety check evaluates intended and unintended mutations

How drone AI could help endangered birds

Machine learning helps identify six promising solvents for carbon dioxide electroreduction

Housing, race, income linked to soil lead exposure in two northeast cities

'Too pretty to do math'? Here's the real reason girls aren't choosing to study math

How languages recycle parts of words to avoid confusion

Plant‑based products need to be easier to find and consistently affordable for shoppers

Primordial halo simulations reveal how cosmic storms shaped the universe's first stars

Titan and Pluto exhibit the same mysterious spectral feature—and researchers can't figure out its origin

Does climate change lead to more migration? Here's why researchers can't agree on the evidence

Poo emoji, earthworm castings and pasta all obey the same coiling theory, physicists find

Third known interstellar visitor 3I/ATLAS may be billions of years older than the solar system, study finds

Industrial fisheries discarded 80,000 metric tons of fish from 1950 to 2022, study finds

Heat stress exposure climbed from 16% to 22% worldwide over 50 years, study shows

The Caspian Sea has lost an area nearly the size of Sicily: Human activities are a major reason why

Ancient mud drilled from Antarctic ice holds clues to future sea-level rise

Newly described Australian ballista spider builds a spring-loaded snare to catch a single ant species

Can we predict how fast a bioplastic breaks down? A new AI tool says 'yes'

Cryo-EM imaging reveals how a molecular gate lets bulky proteins pass cell membranes intact

How oxygen sneaks into a corked wine bottle long before the first pour

EU Commission's draft legislation on pesticides: European researchers highlight the risks

Bow-and-arrow-shaped radio galaxy discovered by citizen scientist

Researchers develop antiviral candidate for deadly mosquito-borne brain infections

Investigating quantum and molecular plumbing in nanofluidics research

Europe scorched by latest heat wave

Marmoset monkeys adapt their voices to sound more like their social partners, study finds

Watch Duty, the fire tracking app used by millions, expands to help monitor dangerous floods

125-million-year-old fossil reveals 'pregnant' shellfish

Digital know-how, not just money basics, may ease retirement anxiety

Electron-Ion Collider's radiofrequency controls system passes first real-world test

Australia confirms first H5N1 cases in wild birds: What happens next for farms and wildlife?

Mapping cotton bacterial blight resistance

New research advances amaranth as a nutritious and high-performing leafy green crop

Europe sweats through new heat wave, with worse to come

Algae microbots take aim at bladder cancer

The giant viruses that orchestrate life in the polar regions

El Niño is underway, satellite observations show

Quantum mechanics theory may work without imaginary numbers, new analysis suggests