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American military engineers designed the GBU-57/B bomb to devastate deeply buried bunkers without radioactive fallout. It’s ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

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Hundreds of trans people, activists and supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C ...

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The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

SpaceX is still looking into what happened on Flight 9, an investigation overseen by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration ...

Researchers bring a SETI approach to the question of what—if anything—humpbacks’ underwater smoke rings might be trying to ...

The Danish government deputized private detectorists to unearth artifacts buried in farm fields. Their finds are revealing ...

Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

We’re all familiar with the sun’s daily motion in the sky. It rises in the east, gets higher in the sky until circa noon, then begins its hours-long descent to set on the western horizon.