Most people know only two things about the appendix: You don’t need it – and if it bursts, you need surgery fast. That basic ...

Planetary systems such as our solar system take hundreds of millions of years to evolve. Since humanity has only existed for a sliver of that time, astronomers have only observed planetary systems at ...

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...

Astronomers have reported observations of a rare star system consisting of one star orbiting a system of three more tightly ...

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In the long shadow of the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs, life appears to have bounced back with surprising speed. A new analysis of sedimentation rates suggests that the first wave of marine ...

Human evolution has long been tied to growing brain size, and new research suggests prenatal hormones may have played a surprising role. By studying the relative lengths of index and ring fingers — a ...

Many people believe that we humans have conquered nature through the wonders of civilization and technology. Some also believe that because we are different from other creatures, we have complete ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: • Scientists discovered that life rebounded at extraordinary speed after the asteroid impact 66 million years ago, with new plankton species evolving ...

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