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Cold Moon 2023: The final full moon of the year rises this...
The Cold Moon — the 13th and final full moon of 2023 — will rise on Dec. 26 and reach higher in the night sky than any other. It will...
Why is it safe to eat moldy cheese?
Cheeses such as Stilton and Camembert contain species of mold that are safe for humans to eat. Why?
Unexpected cosmic clumping could disprove our best understanding...
The tension, centered around a value for cosmic lumpiness known as S8, could join the Hubble tension in dethroning our best picture...
Tufted ground squirrel: The Borneo rodent once believed...
The forests of Borneo are home to squirrels with extravagant tails and teeth so sharp they could slash a deer's throat — and folklore...
11 jaw-dropping fossil discoveries that weren't dinosaurs...
Move over, dinosaurs: It's time for some of our favorite non-dino fossil stories of 2023 to shine.
Are Neanderthals and Homo sapiens the same species?
Scientists have been vollying the question back and forth for more than a century.
8 of the most gorgeous space images of 2023
The first images from Euclid, planets, invisible rings, and the first hints of a neutron star’s wispy magnetic field. Here are the...
Skull with 'execution-style wounds' suggests woman died...
The skull of a woman from colonial Indonesia bears sharp force trauma, possibly due to slavers or because she was seen as a sorcerer.
