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One of the most spectacular celestial sights ever seen suddenly appeared in the northern night sky 450 years ago this...

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Two weeks after Elon Musk’s takeover of Twitter, many people who’ve used the platform to participate in conversations around science...

After decades of population declines, the future is looking brighter for several tuna and billfish species, such as southern bluefin...

Many AIs can only become good at one task, forgetting everything they know if they learn another. A form of...

A model of exotic dark matter suggests that the first stars may have formed not as individuals, but as tiny...

For the first time, octopuses have been spotted throwing things — at each other. Octopuses are known for their solitary...

In a medical first, an infant was successfully treated for a rare, fatal genetic disease before she was born, via...

Sea level rise may proceed faster than expected in the coming decades, as a gargantuan flow of ice slithering out...