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Researchers have laid out the case for complex life evolving 2.1 billion years ago, but not everyone is convinced it started so early.

Researchers say they’ve recovered one of the world’s oldest known dinosaurs after heavy rains exposed a Herrerasaurid skeleton in southern Brazil.

Dot matrix printer paper is the most treacherous, physicists report. Magazine paper comes in second.

The newly discovered Youti yuanshi larva fossil is so well-preserved that it provides a road map for arthropod evolution during the Cambrian period.

Trees don’t like to breathe wildfire smoke, either.

Electrostatically charged lepidopterans could draw pollen out of flowers without touching the blooms, computer simulations suggest.

The Paris Olympics welcome the strongest, fastest and sharpest athletes in the world. But to what extent does age raise or lessen their chances of gold?

The nature of quantum entanglement remains an outstanding problem in physics. But Albert Einstein’s theories, along with insights from quantum computing, could finally put the mystery to rest.

In rocks from Morocco, scientists have unearthed the best preserved trilobites ever found. The lifelike fossils offer new clues to the biology of these extinct sea creatures. The fossils are so well preserved that they show their antennae, legs and…

Using manufacturing defects in silicon chips to house signal-amplifying qubits could help to usher in the much-anticipated quantum internet.