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It’s rare to find gladiator memorabilia from Roman Britain, but archaeologists by Hadrian’s Wall have just found a 2,000-year-old knife handle depicting a left-handed fighter.

Historical texts that mentioned details about the battle site helped researchers match the images to the lost town of al-Qadisiyyah.

The James Webb telescope has spotted three gigantic “red monster” galaxies that were spawned soon after the Big Bang. They’re so large they could rewrite the laws of galactic evolution.

The James Webb Space Telescope’s discovery of unusually bright and massive galaxies soon after the Big Bang has cast doubt on the standard model of galaxy evolution and bolstered a rival theory for how physics may work on large scales,…

Rare diseases — Medical conditions you may never have heard of before

Voyager 2’s 1986 flyby of Uranus, the main source of our knowledge of the icy planet, could have come at the same time as a weird plasma burst from the sun.

A teenager in Canada is critically ill with the country’s first human case of H5N1 bird flu. Health officials aren’t sure how the youth was exposed.

A new model based on the famous alien-hunting Drake equation suggests that some parallel universes within the hypothetical “multiverse” could have higher chances of containing extraterrestrial life than our universe.

The new finding comes from an analysis of pesticide use and prostate cancer incidence in over 3,100 U.S. counties.

Environmental DNA harvested from the ocean, land and air can help scientists monitor wildlife. The challenge is figuring out how to interpret this eDNA.