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A missing porbeagle shark was likely killed by a great white. It’s the first known case of adult porbeagles being hunted by a predator, scientists say.

A pregnant porbeagle shark is believed to have been eaten by a great white, with the larger predator swallowing its tracking device off the coast of Bermuda, scientists report.

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets.

Warmer winters are fast becoming a global phenomenon and can affect everything from the food we grow to the spread of diseases.

Saturn will enter opposition on Sept. 7 and 8, orbiting on the opposite side of Earth as the sun. Here’s everything you need to know to spot Saturn at its peak size and brightness this week.

A shooting star is normally a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it event. That space rock, or meteor, leaves a fiery trail of light as it zips through the atmosphere. Then it’s gone. But sometimes, a lasting afterglow remains for minutes. For more than a…

The battery storage system will be able to store 8,500 megawatt-hours of energy — which is 130 million times the capacity of the best laptops today.

‘The bottom line is, there is no crisis in terms of the standard model of cosmology.

Drinking can change the brain in a way that makes people more likely to speak their mind, but the effects aren’t always straightforward.

Although no aliens were found, the results have helped constrain expectations of possible alien transmitter power.