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Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), astronomers have detected carbon dioxide and hydrogen peroxide on the frozen surface of Pluto’s largest moon, Charon. Detecting these…

Imagine you’re exercising outside on a hot day. You’re drenched in sweat, and the feeling of thirst begins to overwhelm you. You take out your water…

About 37,000 years ago, Neanderthals clustered in small groups in what is now southern Spain. Their lives may have been transformed by the eruption of the…

Neanderthals once roamed Eurasia, but they disappeared around the time Homo sapiens reached Europe. One big question has stumped archaeologists for decades: Who were the last…

Archaeologists have discovered the 4,000-year-old ancient Egyptian tomb of “Idi,” a local governor’s daughter who lived during Egypt’s Middle Kingdom (circa 2030 to 1640 B.C.). She…

Braving the cold weather in Northern Europe required Neanderthals to have robust bodies and a facility for making fire. But did they wear clothes? Indirect evidence…

This year’s flu shot lowers the chance of being hospitalized for flu by 35% among high-risk groups, data released by the Centers for Disease Control and…

This sleek Dyson HP09 air purifier doesn’t just give you cleaner air, it cools and heats the room into the bargain. And, thanks to its October…

Modern humans and Neanderthals clearly interbred, genetic evidence shows, but exactly where and when has remained murky. Now, a new study pinpoints where one wave of…

Archaeologists in Turkey have unearthed a 1,800-year-old sarcophagus with inscriptions indicating it belonged to a Roman gladiator named Euphrates.But instead of finding the gladiator’s remains in…