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Ancient origins of cobras traced back to Asia, before jumping continents to spread across the world up to 37.5 million years ago.

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A private company has received funding from the U.S. government to build the first-ever “streetlights” on the moon — towering, Statue of Liberty-sized structures that could withstand the brutal lunar night.

The same physics that underlie mayonnaise could help physicists corral the ultrahot plasma needed to produce nuclear fusion.

Scientists just pulled the longest hunk of Earth’s mantle from beneath the ocean.

A new survey of meteors that leave persistent trails found that speed and brightness don’t matter as much as atmospheric chemistry.

Archaeologists discovered a 2,000-year-old rock quarry in Jerusalem which may have provided the massive stone building blocks used in the Second Temple.

Evolving immunity to the Bd fungus and a reintroduction project saved a California frog. The key to rescuing other species might be in the frog’s genes.

The Sea of Tranquility is home to at least one lunar lava tube, which could preserve a pristine and unweathered record of lunar volcanism.

The sea surface temperature around the Great Barrier Reef this year is the hottest it has ever been in 400 years, posing huge threats to the coral reef ecosystem in the area.