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Most animals retreated to small, warmer enclaves. But some, like humans, seemed to have stayed where they were.

A surprise announcement from scientists involved in monitoring the solar cycle has finally confirmed that the sun’s most active and dangerous phase — solar maximum — is already well underway, and could continue for at least a year.

Just a few smashups in the asteroid belt may account for 70 percent of Earth’s meteorites, limiting what’s known about our solar system’s history.

The AI-powered drones come in two configurations and can be assembled by human operators in less than five minutes, its creators say.

A clinical trial will test whether a synthetic version of a spider venom molecule can reverse tissue damage after a heart attack.

Insects stuck in sundew plants’ sticky secretions suffocate and die before being subjected to a medley of digestive enzymes.

Scientists have been looking at DNA to store all types of data — not just biological, but also digital. Yet while DNA is a great storage material, it’s also quite fragile. Water or heat can damage it easily — unless…

Objective: Investigate how the size of a meteorite is related to the size of the crater it makes upon impact Areas of science: Astronomy Difficulty: Easy beginner Time required: Very Short (≤ 1 day) Prerequisites: None Material availability: Readily available…

Some of the earliest galaxies found with JWST are also the brightest. That’s a problem for our ideas about the universe.

Using the Gaia space telescope, astronomers have observed 55 massive stars ejected from their home star cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud at speeds equivalent to 80 times the speed of sound.