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Tarantulas’ hairy bodies protect against the scavenging, spider-eating army ants that clean their nests, scientists say.

Scientists in China have developed a tensor processing unit (TPU) that uses carbon-based transistors instead of silicon – and they say it’s extremely energy efficient.

Archaeologists in Kazakhstan have discovered 10 kurgans, or burial mounds, dating to the Middle Ages, and some have “mustaches.”

The mapping of 50,000 mysterious “knots” in the human genome may someday lead to the development of new cancer drugs, researchers say.

New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses.

Archaeologists remain uncertain about the purpose of these head cones, but it appears that ancient Egyptians associated them with “sensuality, sexuality and related notions.”

For the first time, researchers have linked the amount of silver being buried in marine sediments to human-made climate change.

The fort would have contained multiple buildings and was built sometime between the first and third centuries.

The average number of visible dark patches on the sun’s surface in August was higher than any other month since September 2001. The final count was also more than twice as high as experts initially predicted it would be, demonstrating…

Kamikaze termites in French Guiana carry highly volatile toxic “rucksacks” that are ready to be deployed in an instant, when the termite needs to defend its colony.