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Mysterious ‘golden’ fossils from the Jurassic aren’t what...
Fossils found in Germany's Posidonia Shale don't get their gleam from fool's gold after all.
8-year-old girl unearths Stone Age dagger by her school...
An 8-year-old girl discovered a Stone Age dagger when she was playing outside her school in Norway.
4 of Uranus' biggest moons have secret, underground oceans,...
A reanalysis of Voyager data suggests that four of Uranus moons may have oceans tucked between their cores and icy crusts.
Maine sees its 1st measles case in four years
Maine reported a potential measles case in a child and is awaiting confirmation from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Astronomers find remnants of the oldest stars in the universe
A gas cloud 13 billion light-years away may be the resting place of some of the earliest stars in the universe.
Why do coughs linger after a cold?
Coughing is helpful during sickness to protect the lungs from infection. But lasting inflammation may irritate the nerve reflexes...
7,000-year-old tomb in Oman holds dozens of prehistoric...
Archaeologists have found the remains of dozens of people in a roughly 7,000-year-old stone tomb in Oman.
What's the oldest known case of cancer in humans?
The first known case of cancer was discovered in an early human relative's toe bone.