On October 7 Hamas staged a coordinated attack on Israel in which it killed about 1,200 people and captured more...

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Marie Delattre, a biologist at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, has studied the nematode Mesorhabditis belari for nearly a...

A roughly 2,000-year-old woman with a potentially violent streak has emerged from skeletal rubble found on an island off southwestern...

Many people feel hungry after consuming cannabisSolStock/Getty Images If you have ever lit up a joint and craved a snack...

SpaceX added 23 more satellites to its Starlink internet constellation on Saturday night (Dec. 2).A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying...

A new analysis of ancient lava flows in the Canadian Arctic suggests helium trapped in Earth’s core could be slowly...

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Like humans, not all rats develop the same level of addiction. The researchers studied genetic and molecular differences that may...

The world is in a climate crisis — and in the waning days of what’s likely to be the world’s...