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Two artifacts found at a lake shore in Greece are the oldest wooden tools to be uncovered so far and date back 430,000 years.

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Back in 2019, an international team first identified 109 genes linked in different combinations with eight psychiatric ...

A box full of viruses and bacteria has completed its return trip to the International Space Station, and the changes these ...

The liver, working alongside the kidneys and gut, already detoxifies the body around the clock. For most healthy people, ...

Every critter on this planet that relies on a sexual means of reproduction has its own way of luring in a mate – but cuttlefish can do something really special.

At what point do "you" end and the outside world begins? It might feel like a weird question with an obvious answer, but your ...

Inside the cores of ice giant planets, the pressure and temperature are so extreme that the water residing there transitions ...

Starfish (aka sea stars) are master climbers. These many-armed invertebrates traverse vertical, horizontal, and even ...

By the late 1990s, scientists realized that virus activity was likely shaping how carbon and nutrients cycled through ocean ...

We've known about the iconic Ring Nebula for nearly 250 years, but it's only now that astronomers have found a giant mystery ...