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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.
A vibrating pill could help treat obesity, pig study finds
Pigs that swallowed the vibrating pill before meals ate around 40% less than those that did not, according to the study.
'It could be profound': How astronomer Wendy Freedman is...
University of Chicago astronomer Wendy Freedman tells us how she's searching for an answer to the Hubble tension — a discrepancy between...
