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A new image from the James Webb Space Telescope shows Arp 107, home to two merging galaxies, with two bright cores and a “bridge” of dust and gas forming a cosmic smiley face.
Cave art created by the San, the indigenous hunter-gatherers of South Africa’s Karoo region, may have been inspired by fossils of long-extinct reptiles.
All species in the antechinus genus have the same frenzied mating system, where males have sex until they die from organ failure, then the females gobble up their corpses.
In this extract from “The Lives of Spiders: A Natural History of the World’s Spiders,” author Ximena Nelson examines three species of spider with unusual diets — plants, blood and pillbugs.
No one knows for sure when steel was invented, but some of the earliest examples crop up in the first millennium B.C. in Central and South Asia.
Sept. 21, 2024: Our weekly roundup of the latest science in the news, as well as a few fascinating articles to keep you entertained over the weekend.
The person dubbed “the prophet of the Anthropocene” talks to Live Science about how they got this title, what the Anthropocene means, and why we need to stop trying to define when it started and accept that we’ve been in…
Each year, roughly 8,000 deaths in the United States are associated with extreme temperatures. And as temperatures rise, this number could swell.
If the pluripotent stem cells can be turned into precursors to egg and sperm cells, the feat could potentially be a big deal for giant panda conservation.
Climate change will fundamentally challenge the world’s urban centers. Three cities — San Diego, Milan and Jakarta — offer lessons for how to adapt to a warming planet.
