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The sniffs we take to identify a smell last from one to three seconds. But is it possible for us to detect odor changes in an even shorter time? Yes, a new study finds — far more quickly. A new…

One of the most extreme megadroughts has helped fuel wildfires in Los Angeles County and elsewhere in California.

Chemicals in the tooth enamel of Australopithecus suggest the early human ancestors ate very little meat, dining on vegetation instead.

Scientists have unveiled a giant horned dinosaur from Egypt called Tameryraptor markgrafi after discovering lost photos of fossils destroyed in WWII.

Archaeologists have unearthed a unique stone structure in East Jerusalem, providing evidence of cultic activity and possibly animal sacrifice in the Kingdom of Judah during the First Temple period.

Physicists have long-suspected that the building blocks of protons experienced quantum entanglement. Now, researchers have the first direct evidence — after using a trick to infer subatomic particles’ entropy.

Experts lay bare the health effects of breathing in wildfire smoke and the steps that can be taken to reduce one’s risk.

NASA astronaut Don Pettit has snapped a striking shot of the super-bright comet racing past our planet for the first time in 160,000 years, as it lit up the night skies across the globe.

Astronomers have determined the internal composition of a distant, disintegrating planet for the first time.

Errors in quantum computers are an obstacle for their widespread use. But a team of scientists say that, by using an antimony atom and the Schrödinger’s Cat thought experiment, they could have found a way to stop them.