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When outdoor temperatures spike to 103 degrees Fahrenheit (39 degrees Celsius), or drop to -9 F (-23 C), like they did across Pennsylvania last year, people locked up in jails and prisons cannot…
A new study in Science Advances addresses the pressing questions about how long-duration exposure to microgravity affects the human genome.
Thousands of delegates are now gathering in Yerevan to discuss the future of life on Earth as we know it at the U.N.’s COP17 biodiversity summit.
A shipwreck off the coast of Turkey is the oldest shipwreck in the world, our team of archaeologists believes. There's little left of the ship itself, but based on clues from its cargo—including pottery vessels—a research team I was part of has tentatively dated the wreck to around 2700–2400 B.C.
A fossil from southeastern China is challenging the idea that early bird evolution was driven primarily by the development of flight. Named Yuezhuornis yangyuanensis, the crow-sized animal lived about 150 million years ago, but its unusually short wings and long hindlimbs indicate that it was adapted to life on the ground rather than…
