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Over the past two billion years, this supercontinent cycle has produced at least three major supercontinents: Columbia, Rodinia, and Pangea. Each one formed as landmasses gradually collided, only to ...

B ack in 2018, a bumper crop of new spider assassins was discovered in Madagascar. They represented four new species in the ...

Half dog, half graxaim-do-campo – the local term for a pampas fox – the name “Dogxim” was a hybrid made to perfectly match her genome. She was a funny-looking thing: rather like a fox, with pointed ...

On July 20, for viewers in the US and Canada, the waning crescent Moon will pass in front of the Pleiades, eclipsing them ...

“For a long time we had this idea of Neanderthals as being very focused on survival and not very culturally developed,” said ...

The process allows the children to get most of their DNA from their parents, while also avoiding mitochondrial diseases their mother might otherwise have passed on.

R esearchers from the University of Copenhagen have found decades-old aerial photos that are helping them better understand ...

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NASA launched New Horizons to explore Pluto. In 2019, it visited the furthest object in the Solar System we have seen up close.

P epper the pet cat has had his paws in the discovery of two viruses. After helping to find the first jeilongvirus in the US last year, he’s just doubled down and contributed to the identification of ...