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Neither dust nor wind nor dark of night will disturb new caches of precious Mars samples on the Red Planet.This...

Since the 19th century, when motivational science had its start, scientists have focused on what makes us persist through difficulties...

While the bodies of the deceased play only a small part in spreading pandemics, it is possible for corpses to cause...

Anecdotally, it’s difficult to watch some of the more intelligent animals navigating the world or interacting with one another without...

New scientific records are set every year, and 2022 was no exception. A bacterial behemoth, a shockingly speedy supercomputer and...

The rapid rise of text-to-image generators powered by artificial intelligence has thrilled some people, but left others concerned for the...

An ambitious galaxy-mapping mission has identified around 250,000 galaxies in the quest to better understand dark energy, the mysterious force...

New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō, the world’s heaviest parrot, is flightless and nocturnal, with fragrant moss-green feathers, an odd, whiskery...

As savage Arctic cold was getting ready to surge south across North America, vivid imagery based on data from weather...