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Asteroid C0WEPC5 entered Earth’s atmosphere at 1:15 a.m. local time on Dec. 4 over northeastern Siberia.

Space weather experts warn that solar activity will persist or even increase after solar maximum has ended and we enter a phase of the solar cycle dubbed the “battle zone.”

At least 15 human skulls at a Neolithic site in Italy may represent the group’s collective ancestors, although archaeologists aren’t certain.

A “bizarre” E-shaped aurora was recently photographed dancing in the sky above Alaska. The unusual light show was caused by rare black auroras, a.k.a. anti-auroras, which catapult charged particles from the sun back out of Earth’s atmosphere and into space.

New brain scans have shown that neurons in several regions of the brain become significantly more active across birth.

Without a fungal support network, trees can lose their ability to adapt to changing climatic conditions, increasing their extinction risk.

A polar bear stands on floating sea ice in the Arctic. The bears rely on sea ice to move throughout their hunting grounds.

The footage give clues to the range of plants the bears eat and how they mate, information important for conservation.

To Sally Warring, protists are an absolutely underrated type of wildlife.   “Protists are very charismatic and interesting,” says Warring, who studies these creatures at the Earlham Institute in Norwich, England. Among this richly diverse group of mostly single-celled eukaryotes (creatures…

A chance discovery by researchers could drastically lower the energy needed for next-generation memory technologies.