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Even a microwave oven is not immune to bacteria. With microwave radiation bouncing around inside them, these ovens might seem a threatening place to microbes. But scientists have just turned up more than up 100 different strains of bacteria living…

A rare nova explosion will soon bring a “new star” to the night sky, and scientists are excited.

The newfound wreck could help maritime archaeologists better understand how 20th-century warships were designed.

Archaeologists think the coin dates to the first years of the region’s rule by the Ottoman Empire.

An mRNA vaccine that targets several aspects of C. difficile’s ability to cause severe disease prevented major symptoms and death in mice.

On Oct. 2, a partial “ring of fire” solar eclipse was visible from the remote island of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, where around 1,000 stone moai statues stand. You can see the whole celestial event play out…

A new physical model suggests meltwater from thawing permafrost on Russia’s Yamal Peninsula can unlock methane sources at depth, triggering explosions that open enormous craters at the surface.

Images captured by Curiosity’s onboard cameras show several large tears in the tire of one of the rover’s wheels. However, the damage does not appear to be slowing the roaming robot down.

The Thule Inuit people and Norse both hunted walrus in the High Arctic in the 13th century, according to a new study.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is investigating the uncontrolled reentry of part of a Falcon 9 rocket that delivered passengers to the International Space Station in a capsule that will return stranded astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to Earth…