We've discovered that a meteorite struck northwest Scotland 1 billion years ago, 200 million years later than previously ...

We can now hear one of the largest and most ancient living organisms on Earth whisper with the tremble of a million leaves ...

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Scientists in the United States have 'blown the lid off' the Yellowstone supervolcano's mysterious underground reservoir of ...

A giant object that has been lurking in the relative galactic vicinity of the Solar System this entire time has just been unmasked in all its enormous, invisible glory.

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If we were living in a computer simulation, would we be able to tell we were living in a computer simulation? It's a question ...

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Although measles poses the greatest immediate threat because of how contagious it is, further drops in vaccination rates ...

Spain's prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, has said the exact cause of the blackout is yet to be determined. In early reporting, Portugal's grid operator REN was quoted as blaming the event on a rare ...