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African researchers are using Drosophila melanogaster fruit flies to advance studies of genetics, biomedicine, developmental biology, toxicology and more.

Researchers found the carcass in August 2020 in Russia’s Sakha Republic, and the discovery has revealed a never-before-seen characteristic of woolly rhinos: a fatty hump on the animal’s back.

How does the Sega Toys Homestar Matataki compare with the fan-favorite Homestar Flux? We put it to the test.

Two species of birds in Costa Rica build nests in trees defended by ants. Ants that encounter the horsehair fungus in the nests develop odd behaviors.

Yoshua Bengio played a crucial role in the development of the machine-learning systems we see today. Now, he says that they could pose an existential risk to humanity.

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Simone Biles has nothing on this tiny backflipper. The globular springtail (Dicyrtomina minuta) is so small it could straddle the tip of a pencil. Yet this insect-like animal can vault itself 62 millimeters (2.4 inches) in the air, spinning backward…

Finding a Viking Age burial ground of this size is rare, in part because Scandinavian soil doesn’t preserve skeletons well.

On Sunday, Sept. 29, Earth captured a new “minimoon” called 2024 PT5. The bus-size asteroid is expected to orbit our planet for 57 days, but is too small to be visible to amateur skywatchers.

Betelgeuse has a sequel — in the form of a companion star that’s about the same mass as the sun, orbiting it about once every 2,100 days.