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Australia's platypus, one of the world's most enigmatic animals, had a more exotic origin story, according to an exciting discovery by Flinders University paleontologists. They have described rare 25-million-year-old fossils ...

From the scarecrow-like silhouettes of Joshua Tree National Park to the fog-shrouded Redwood Coast of Mendocino and Humboldt counties, California's identity is deeply rooted in its trees. However, a new study led by researchers ...

Almost 6,000 degrees Celsius. That is how hot Earth's inner core is. Earth's heat is already being put to use in geothermal power plants in Iceland, for example, and many Swedish homeowners use geothermal heating to keep ...

To understand birds—their social relationships, their choices, even their feathers—you need to understand the way they see the world. That can be a challenging task, because birds and humans literally see their environments ...

A dam in the Bering Strait could potentially help stabilize the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), according to research by Ph.D. candidate Jelle Soons from Utrecht University. Using climate models, he investigated ...

The rare and infamous titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum) may be just days away from opening inside of the Princess of Wales Conservatory, Kew Gardens' horticulturists have said. Known to many as the "corpse flower" due to ...

Archaeologists have identified the earliest sustained human occupation in Highland Southern Africa, and suggest it could not have existed without considerable collaboration at a time when we were becoming humans.

Galaxies are not always teeming with vibrant, hot young stars. Sometimes, they are rich in gas and dark matter but have very few or no stars, making them extremely difficult to detect. They are called "dark galaxies" and ...

Researchers have developed a soft robot that moves like an elephant's trunk—precise enough to pick fresh fruit, yet powerful enough to help lift a patient. Lucia Beccai, an expert in soft robotics at the Italian Institute ...

Less than a year ago, astronomers discovered a comet soaring through our sky that was not from our solar system. Although we still don't know where this interstellar object called 3I/ATLAS came from, research led by the University ...

At 61 years old, Bill had started showing changes to his health—decreased appetite, weight loss, and abdominal bloating. But his blood work was normal, leaving the cause of his symptoms unknown. The next step was clear: Bill ...

The European Space Agency Plato mission has successfully completed a series of tough tests under space-like conditions. With this accomplishment, the spacecraft is on track to lift off in early 2027 and begin its search for ...