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For decades, cities have been designed around “gray infrastructure.” Roads move people. Bridges connect communities. Water systems protect public health. These systems are governed by engineering…

Around 100,000 years ago, an early Homo sapiens man was probably stabbed in the face with a sharp stone tool and later buried in a cave…

The brain’s memory center may come “prewired,” rather than being built from scratch after birth, a new study in mice finds.The research, published in April in…

A secretive Chinese spacecraft has captured the first-ever close-up photo of one of Earth’s temporary “quasi-moons” after arriving there for a potential first-of-its-kind landing.The space probe…

The patient: A woman in her early 50s in CanadaThe symptoms: The woman started occasionally hearing her name being called when she was alone, usually in…

A team of conservationists has discovered and restored the tombstone of Sebastian, a formerly enslaved man who died free in 1729.”That discovery is likely one of…

The European Space Agency’s (ESA) Euclid space telescope has spotted 31 previously unknown quasars dating to the universe’s earliest chapter, including the two oldest ever found.The…

The fragile and battered remains of an infant who lived about 6,000 years in Mesopotamia may be the oldest documented case of child abuse from the…

For the first time, a physicist has experimentally watched time emerge from within an isolated quantum system — by creating a “mini-universe.” This bizarre experiment raises…

Archaeologists in Italy have unearthed the royal tomb of a pre-Roman “warrior-prince” along with the remains of his chariot and weapons. The tomb was just one…