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10-thousand-year-old genomes from southern Africa change picture of human evolution

Complex life developed nearly 1 billion years earlier than previously thought, study reveals

Tightening the net around the elusive sterile neutrino

Scientists Just Tore Up a Major Particle Physics Theory

Satellite Megaconstellations Are Now Threatening Telescopes in Space

Ancient southern Africans took genetic evolution in a new direction

What Are Lie Groups?

Free climbers discover remnants of ancient sea turtle stampede in Italy

NASA tests drones in Death Valley, preps for Martian sands and skies

A routine shingles shot may offer powerful defense against dementia

Norway postpones deep-sea mining activities for four years

Three ways climate change affects mental health—and why the story is more hopeful than it might seem

Long-standing puzzle in electron scattering deepens with new measurement

What's working from home doing to your mental health? We tracked 16,000 Australians to find out

The tiny clue that reveals if an animal has been illegally smuggled

Researchers slightly lower study's estimate of drop in global income due to climate change

Nursery web spider uses legs to 'sniff out' its partners

Thunderstorms are noisily kicking off summer in NZ—what's driving them?

How the shapes of letters can subtly influence our feelings

How Hollywood horror's 'killer wolf' trope is sabotaging rewilding efforts

The bacteria that won't wake up: NASA discovers new bacteria 'playing dead'

NASA's Fly Foundational robots demo to bolster in-space infrastructure

Interstellar object covered in 'icy volcanoes' could rewrite our understanding of how comets formed

Success in measuring nano water droplets: Real-time images could advance hydrogen and battery research

New study offers a glimpse into 230,000 years of climate and landscape shifts in the American Southwest

JWST finds a Milky Way twin born shockingly early in the Universe

Oysters booming in Firth of Forth

A new tunable cell-sorting device with potential biomedical applications

First evidence of lost-wax casting for silver in Bronze Age Western Europe uncovered

During times of market volatility, investors should track insider trades

New study finds high-narcissism CEOs pursue more acquisitions in response to strong firm performance

Chemists synthesize a fungal compound that holds promise for treating brain cancer

Poor mental health linked to dark web use

Water-resistant and recyclable redox-active MOFs enable stable energy storage in acidic solutions

Machine learning used to better predict New England floods

The solar mission that survived disaster and found 5,000 comets

Forming moon may have taken three big impacts early in Earth’s history

Human-caused earthquakes are real. Here’s why even stable regions can snap

A common constipation drug shows a surprising ability to protect kidneys

Human feelings influence beliefs about cat emotions and well-being, study shows

Your sweat reveals health problems long before symptoms appear

Study finds offshore wind areas in the Gulf of Mexico pose minimal impact to shrimping grounds

How Ramanujan's formulae for pi connect to modern high energy physics

Antibiotics could trigger immune response through gut microbiome metabolites

Fish freshness easily monitored with a new sensor

KIC 5623923 is a faint eclipsing binary exhibiting Delta Scuti-type pulsations, observations find

Scientists reveal what really drives the “freshman 15”

Manatee protection may be eroded under Trump administration's proposed changes to Endangered Species Act

SpaceX knocks out sunset Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral

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