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Almost two centuries after the first Neanderthal was discovered, we are still learning a great deal about our ancient relatives. Neanderthals weren’t the cave-dwelling, knuckle-dragging brutes…

In the quest for a reliable way to detect any stirrings of a sentient “I” in artificial intelligence systems, researchers are turning to one area of…

How much does a black hole change in a year? Scientists may now have an idea, after taking a fresh look at the first-ever black hole…

Japanese scientists have created the first-ever long-term dataset about Earth’s entire atmosphere, stretching all the way to space.They hope the project will help shed light on…

Melting ice high up in the Rocky Mountains has revealed an impeccably preserved forest, frozen in time for thousands of years.Beartooth Plateau, which sits at an…

Archaeologists have discovered a hoard of gold and silver coins by the remains of a centuries-old synagogue in Israel, near the Sea of Galilee.The hoard of…

Name: Giant phantom jelly (Stygiomedusa gigantea)Where it lives: Every ocean except the Arctic OceanWhat it eats: Plankton and small fishWhy it’s awesome: Earth’s oceans are home…

Food is vital to life, but sometimes what we eat can be deadly. We generally try to avoid what we know to be toxic or avoid…

If someone says they need to use the bathroom, does it make you want to go too? “Contagious peeing” is a known phenomenon in humans, but…

Why does it seem like the same dreams keep following us? Maybe you’ve dreamed of soaring like a bird since childhood, or you’ve recently started revisiting…