After a two week expedition off the coast of Brazil, an international team of researchers discovered 31 new marine species, ...

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A look at the idea of searching for signs of pollution beyond Earth.

The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) revealed a distant planet located 40,000 light-years away using microlensing for the first time.

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Teetering near endangered status, the starlet sea anemone produces “an ancient mechanism” for fighting viruses that ...

Discover the science behind how elite athletes harness physics, psychology, and strategy to perform at the highest level.

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The octopus is one of the strangest animals ever to evolve. With 500 million neurons—most of them located in its eight arms ...

Exceptionally preserved fossils from China reveal that bryozoans were already thriving during the Cambrian explosion.

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Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb has been appointed by the White House to lead a team investigating unidentified anomalous ...