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Two brothers from the wealthy and powerful Medici family died of malaria and were not poisoned as a rumor had suggested, archaeologists have confirmed based on…

The first dinosaur found in Antarctica belonged to a group that included the largest animals ever to walk the planet, a new study finds.A backbone from…

Life on Earth could continue for another 1.8 billion years, according to new research. This figure, which is based on complex climate models, is far longer…

Researchers have proposed creating a novel satellite constellation, dubbed StormWall, that could shield Earth from the worst effects of solar “superstorms” that we are otherwise unable…

Network latency in bitcoin mining is driving massive energy waste ‪—‬ the annual equivalent of the total generation capacity of Switzerland’s entire hydroelectric power system, scientists…

The patient: A man in his 20s in Edinburgh, U.K.The symptoms: The man visited an eye clinic after noticing floaters — small, dark shapes drifting across…

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the world’s largest and most powerful atom smasher, has entered a planned four-year shutdown that will upgrade it to its most…

Two lumps of potato discovered in a roughly 500-year-old Inca storage room in Peru are a rare find: freeze-dried potatoes predating the Spanish invasion, a new…

Trees in China that were planted as part of huge reforestation projects appear to grow faster than those in natural forests, a new study finds. This…

A breakthrough in photonic chips could make large, costly, ultrafast lasers dramatically smaller, leading to portable and affordable imaging, diagnostic and information-processing devices, researchers say.By using…