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Move over, IC 1101. You may be impressively large, but you never stood a chance against the largest known galaxy: Alcyoneus.
Was this a moment when humans interbred with Neanderthals?
What makes a face trustworthy, anyway?
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Poachers drove the Northern White Rhino to extinction. One scientist and her “frozen zoo” are on a mission to bring them back.
Psychologists often view relationship power imbalances through three unique dynamics.
Are you a striver or a pioneer?
About 150 million years ago, a long-necked sauropod came down with a respiratory infection. The rest is history…or is it?
Outfitted with wheels and rotors, the bot can morph from a land drone into a quadcopter in seconds.
Many animals practice what looks like self-medication. A new report suggests that chimps tend wounds with insects, often treating each other.
Choking under pressure seems to have deep evolutionary roots.
Men with one older brother are 12% more likely to enter a same-sex union than those with a sister.
Take a look at the Times Square Totem, the Trafalgar Square Pyramid, and other landmarks that were never built.
If the electromagnetic and weak forces unify to make the electroweak force, maybe, at even higher energies, something even greater happens?
The Kardashev scale ranks civilizations from Type 1 to Type 3 based on energy harvesting.
Painkillers have nasty side effects, such as organ damage or addiction. Researchers have discovered a new drug that may cause none of these.
After it became clear that the world wasn't 6,000 years old, some proposed that northern peoples had emerged independently from others.
Religion fosters traits that are helpful in a school system that relies on authority figures and rewards people who follow the rules.
Once science operations begin for James Webb, we'll never look at the Universe the same way again. Here's what everyone should know.
Ingesting tiny doses of hallucinogens might not have the outsized benefits that some people claim it does.
Scientists looked for ways to trigger the “build whatever normally was here” signal for cells at the site of a wound.