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Scientists in Australia are deep-freezing koala eggs and sperm as a “genetic backup” to save the wild population from future extinction.The backup could be used to…

Researchers have extracted DNA from a 50,000-year-old tooth belonging to an African antelope, setting a record for the oldest DNA ever retrieved from sub-Saharan Africa, a…

Extreme coastal flooding events are occurring far more frequently in our warming world than ever before, threatening countless communities that will only become more vulnerable as…

QUICK FACTSWhere is it? Over the BahamasWhat’s in the photo? The space shuttle Atlantis, preparing to dock with the International Space Station (ISS)Who took the photo?…

Archaeologists have found five pairs of iron shackles at a 2,300-year-old Celtic site in France ‪—‬ a discovery that suggests the small settlement was frequented by…

Interstellar space just got a little sweeter: A type of sugar called erythrulose has been found near the center of the Milky Way, according to a…

QUICK FACTSName: Elamite helmet with divine figuresWhat it is: A bronze helmet with gold decorationsWhere it is from: Southwestern IranWhen it was made: Circa 1500 to…

Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement savings…

On April 6, the four crewmembers of NASA’s Artemis II mission swooped around the far side of the moon in their Orion spacecraft, disappearing from Earth’s…

Archaeologists have discovered 18 ancient tombs in an Egyptian town along the Mediterranean Sea.The tombs ‪—‬ which were unearthed in Marina el-Alamein (also spelled Alamin), about…