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The 50-million-year-old Pegasus volans isn’t closely related to seamoths or oarfish, like some researchers have suggested. But what is it?

In AI Snake Oil, two computer scientists set us straight on the power and limits of AI and offer advice for moving forward.

The Aviron Strong Series Rower makes rowing fun, but can this beast of a machine keep us coming back for more?

IQM’s quantum processor achieved 99.9% fidelity in recent tests, the company says. Here’s what that actually means.

Waterpower may have given a big lift to the builders of Egypt’s first pyramid.   It was built for King Djoser, the first ruler of Egypt’s Third Dynasty. That was nearly 4,700 years ago. The structure’s stone platforms get smaller as…

A 2012 satellite photo captured an unusual “double rainbow” glory appearing next to an unconnected chain of rare vortices in the clouds above Mexico’s Guadalupe Island.

A missing porbeagle shark was likely killed by a great white. It’s the first known case of adult porbeagles being hunted by a predator, scientists say.

A pregnant porbeagle shark is believed to have been eaten by a great white, with the larger predator swallowing its tracking device off the coast of Bermuda, scientists report.

Geologists have known for decades that gold forms in quartz with the help of earthquakes, but now they have worked out exactly how the setting and seismic waves combine to form large nuggets.

Warmer winters are fast becoming a global phenomenon and can affect everything from the food we grow to the spread of diseases.