A new study finds plantations respond strongly to carbon dioxide, especially while young.
This over 1200-year-old Maya formula survived, and so did the name connected to it.
A rare sandstone spirit reveals the private faith of Rome’s northern frontier.
The culprit may have been an unusually dry relic from the outer solar system.
This bizarre mechanical computer has no wires or chips.
An experimental aircraft uses motion blur to become a faint haze in flight.
Elephants may hear messages traveling through the ground from more than 10 kilometers away, thanks to massive ear bones and a muscle that can shut their ear canals.
World's highest-living mouse survives in thin air by solving a problem that no other mammal can—not even you, human
After a discouraging run of bare, airless rocks, astronomers have finally caught a habitable-zone exoplanet hanging onto its sky.
Archaeologists have debated whether royal women ever used the weapons in their tombs. Their bones may have settled the argument.
It predates rise of modern humans and could have formed a platform
A scanning mistake and a translation error created scientific nonsense that AI models learned to repeat.
This paint could track the heart, muscles and brain during everyday movement.
It's a horrific betrayal of trust.
Plastic pollution may ripple downstream, threatening the human and wildlife communities that depend on glacier-fed waters.
Living nearly 900 meters underwater, this isopod evolved unusual adaptations to thrive in the world’s most food-scarce environment.
From ants to apes, social species scout, bond, raid and retreat before conflict.
The discovery hints that life’s ingredients may form before planets exist.
A metalworking hub in Gaul reveals a darker side of Iron Age life. 
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