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Cats are quicker than babies to associate a picture of a word with its corresponding picture, new research shows.

Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

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Scientists have discovered how to convert wastewater into biofuel to cut plane emissions by 70% — creating a new sustainable version of aviation fuel using biomass and agricultural waste.

In 2013, Ning Zeng came across a very old, very important log. At the time, he and his colleagues were digging a trench in the Canadian province of Quebec. They planned to fill it with 35 metric tons (39 U.S.…

A rare discovery of a tomb from ancient Egypt’s Middle Kingdom near Luxor may hold several generations from a single family.

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, various diseases and even the origin of life.

A gene controlling potato growth limits the plant’s fertilizer uptake. Tweaking related genes could lead to more sustainable potato varieties.

A bat gym shows that vampires are more like some insects, burning amino acids from blood proteins rather than the carbs or fats other mammals rely on.

A skeleton buried in a fetal position is actually made of bones from at least five people who lived across a span of 2,500 years.