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What's inside Earth?
The center of Earth lies around 4,000 miles beneath our feet — but what lies beneath the outer crust and the inner core?
Meet the 'exclusome': A mini-organ just discovered in cells...
A newly described organelle in mammal cells may serve as a genome defense system and its function may reflect how the early nucleus...
New Chinese space telescope will 'outdo Hubble', researchers...
China's Xuntian space telescope is scheduled to launch in 2024 and was designed to outdo NASA's Hubble.
Bright yellow sea snail named 'margarita' in honor of late...
The margarita sea snail, which shoots out a toxic mucus web to catch prey, was discovered on a coral reef in the Florida Keys and...
Why do dogs eat poop?
Poop eating is a natural behavior in dogs; although it may disgust humans, it usually poses no threat to your canine's health.
Loads of mammals — including cats — glow under UV light,...
Fluorescence found to be extremely common among mammals, and may be the "default status" — but exactly why that is remains unclear,...
The 1st Americans were not who we thought they were
For decades, we thought the first humans to arrive in the Americas came across the Bering Land Bridge 13,000 years ago. New evidence...
13 of the oldest archaeological sites in the Americas
Archaeological discoveries throughout the Americas are pushing back the date for when humans reached the New World by thousands of...
