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Thousands of previously undetected tiny earthquakes have revealed the edge of a miniature tectonic plate slamming into Alaska near the Denali Fault.The microplate could be focusing…

Researchers have demonstrated that a computer worm powered by artificial intelligence (AI) can autonomously spread across a network by identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities on different devices,…

For half a century, scientists have known that Earth’s Northern and Southern hemispheres have almost the exact same albedo ‪— the amount of sunlight they reflect…

For years, scientists have suspected that, at the molecular level, water is two different liquids ‪—‬ a denser one and a less-dense one ‪—‬ that are…

China’s Einstein Probe has spotted a cosmic explosion from a mysterious source that’s unlike anything seen before.The burst was made up of two X-ray flares, about…

For the first time, archaeologists have analyzed the genetic material of Homo naledi, a mysterious 300,000-year-old relative of modern humans discovered deep in a South African…

An isolated population of sperm whales in the Mediterranean Sea are splitting into two distinct groups with different dialects, a new study reveals. This shift has…

A deep-space telescope on a grand mission to make the largest-ever 3D map of the universe just peered into the star-filled heart of the Milky Way.…

The patient: A 61-year-old man in JapanThe symptoms: The man visited a hospital because two months earlier, some foods and beverages began to taste extremely unpleasant…

Earth’s oldest known impact crater formed when a meteorite slammed into what is now Australia about 3 billion years ago ‪—‬ 470 million years later than…