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Scientists are scratching their heads over why three mammal-eating orcas turned up in Seattle waters in March, having apparently traveled 1,500 to 2,000 miles (2,400 to…

Changing just one “letter” in the DNA of female mouse embryos triggers the development of male genitalia and testes, scientists have found.”This is a remarkable finding…

QUICK FACTSName: AoshimaLocation: Ehime prefecture, JapanCoordinates: 33.7361, 132.4812Why it’s incredible: Cats outnumber humans by about 27 to 1.Aoshima is a tiny, 0.2-square-mile (0.5 square kilometers) Japanese…

Defense and intelligence agencies are increasingly relying on artificial intelligence (AI) systems to augment their capabilities, including for pattern recognition in intelligence gathering and scenario planning…

About 1,500 years ago, entire families were sacrificed to honor local royalty in what is now South Korea, a new genetic study finds. The analysis also…

Wild chimpanzees in Uganda are fighting a rare “civil war,” which seems to have begun when a huge community divided, leading to sustained and deadly conflict…

Astronomers have spotted an intriguing triple-galaxy system, nicknamed “The Stingray,” that dates to when the universe was just over 1.1 billion years old. A new analysis…

A highly anticipated “sungrazer” comet is no more. Many experts expected the comet to shine so brightly that it could be seen in the daytime sky.…

Computer scientists say they’ve developed a new encryption method designed to defend sensitive data from one of the biggest looming threats in cybersecurity: quantum computers powerful…

The Artemis II astronauts are about to return from a record-setting trip around the moon, but is their Orion spacecraft’s heat shield safe to bring them…