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For the ninth year, Science News honors researchers in its SN 10: Scientists to Watch list.

This series of paintings, found inside a cave in the Sahara, shows a pair of swimmers.

Centuries ago, astronomers observed a dark oval — nicknamed the Permanent Spot — on Jupiter. It was located at the same latitude, or distance from Jupiter’s equator, where the giant windstorm known as the Great Red Spot swirls today. Researchers…

THC (noun, “T-H-C”) THC is a chemical found in the plant cannabis, or marijuana. THC is short for delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol. It is the compound mainly responsible for cannabis’s psychoactive effects. That is, effects that change how a person thinks, feels or…

The martial artifacts found at the temple complex were likely offerings that an ancient kingdom made to their chief god.

The James Webb Space Telescope has taken things to the extreme, studying the outer edge of our own galaxy, the Milky Way and producing a stunning new image.

The human body has a number of mechanisms that prevent you from holding your breath until you suffocate.

Being a Roman gladiator was a bloody business, but did all gladiators really fight to the death?

A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a “bridge” of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.

Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles.