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Quick factsWhat it is: Pa 30, a supernova remnantWhere it is: 7,500 light-years away, in the constellation CassiopeiaWhen it was shared: Oct. 6, 2026A mysterious “guest…

Like their cephalopod cousins the octopuses, cuttlefish are masters of disguise.As they hunt, these marine predators send waves of color across their skin. The rainbow display…

When temperatures spike, California redwoods slow down photosynthesis, new research has found. This finding has serious implications for the long-term survival of the iconic trees in…

Recent research challenges a long-standing idea about how the brain develops: Rather than arising from a single source, the brain may emerge from two distinct populations…

A new 4,300-mile (7,000-kilometer) undersea fiber cable will shuttle data between the U.S. and France at breakneck speeds of up to 1 million gigabits per second…

Sometimes, it takes a great struggle to build towering peaks. And what more thunderous event is there than the clashing of continental plates?Geological pileups have birthed…

“Necklaces” of ultracold atoms have provided new evidence to support a nearly 100-year-old quantum theory.In 1931, physicists were trying to use quantum mechanics to explain why…

Archaeologists digging at a 13,800-year-old site in interior Alaska have unearthed thousands of artifacts and fossils, including what may be the bones of the earliest domesticated…

A fossil that sat in a museum collection for over a century is a previously unknown species of predatory dinosaur, researchers have found. The discovery could…

Stellar cores called white dwarfs come in an astonishing array of colors, including what scientists say is the first known green star and the reddest star…