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Lasers revealed that the city spanned roughly the same area as Beijing and may have been among the most densely populated in the region.

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Scientists have discovered how to convert wastewater into biofuel to cut plane emissions by 70% — creating a new sustainable version of aviation fuel using biomass and agricultural waste.

In 2013, Ning Zeng came across a very old, very important log. At the time, he and his colleagues were digging a trench in the Canadian province of Quebec. They planned to fill it with 35 metric tons (39 U.S.…

A rare discovery of a tomb from ancient Egypt’s Middle Kingdom near Luxor may hold several generations from a single family.

Membraneless organelles, also called biomolecular condensates, are changing how scientists think about protein chemistry, various diseases and even the origin of life.

A gene controlling potato growth limits the plant’s fertilizer uptake. Tweaking related genes could lead to more sustainable potato varieties.

A bat gym shows that vampires are more like some insects, burning amino acids from blood proteins rather than the carbs or fats other mammals rely on.

A skeleton buried in a fetal position is actually made of bones from at least five people who lived across a span of 2,500 years.

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spotted a feeding black hole in the early universe that seems to be eating 40 times faster than is theoretically possible.