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“Our observations indicate the presence of powerful iron winds, probably fuelled by a hot spot in the atmosphere.”

Unusual tusks on preserved skulls of dicynodonts influenced the look of a mythical beast painted by Southern Africa’s San people, a researcher suspects.

Animals including mammals usually protect their brains from infiltrating microbes that can cause disease. But some fish seem to do just fine.

Live Science spoke with leading psychiatrist Dr. Dinesh Bhugra ahead of his appearance at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in London.

The largest-ever black hole jets ever seen hint that these cosmic monsters may play an even more significant role in shaping galaxies than previously thought.

The two plasma fountains, spanning 23 million light-years, could shape cosmic structures far beyond their home galaxy.

Top quarks and antiquarks produced in the Large Hadron Collider are entangled, a study shows.

Qubits are the fundamental building blocks of quantum computers — and, when fitted into these machines — rely on the weird laws of quantum mechanics to process calculations in parallel.

An analysis of tissue samples from nearly 1,200 older adults found that the more insertions individuals had, the younger they died.

Rare fossils of the mosasaur Globidens alabamaensis — a 20 foot predator with strange, mushroom-shaped teeth — unearthed in northeastern Texas.