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An expedition to a deep-sea ridge, just north of the Hawaiian Islands, revealed a surprise back in 2022: an ancient dried-up ...

The fruit of Africa's marble berry (Pollia condensata) is a true living gemstone, sporting a stunning metallic blue sheen ...

Alzheimer's disease affects the brain in tragic and seemingly irreversible ways, but a new study gives hope that its ...

The flipside of biophobia is called biophilia, an innate affinity for nature. Both of these terms stem from evolutionary ...

Mosasaurs were the apex predators of the oceans during the reign of the dinosaurs, but new research reveals dinosaurs weren't ...

An elusive wild cat long feared extinct in Thailand has been rediscovered three decades after the last recorded sighting, ...

There's no escaping the unrelenting passage of time, but supercentenarians who live to see their 110th birthday have a ...

Mini-brains' grown in the lab allow scientists to study brain wiring without interfering with brains in living people, and ...

Dogs have been 'man's best friend' for thousands of years, which is a long time to get to know each other. But a new study ...