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Under a cloudy sky above Pula, Croatia, on April 21, drones took flight like high-tech clay pigeons. The quadcopters, launched...

Living at the extremes of the Triassic era would’ve been pretty rough. It started and finished with massive extinction events, picking...

The raging wildfires in Canada recently engulfed the Northeastern US in smoke, causing the air quality to plummet to some...

A rubbery hydrogel often found in disposable diapers has been shown to absorb record amounts of moisture from the air...

An artist’s rendition of Saturn’s moon Enceladus depicts hydrothermal activity on the seafloor and cracks in the moon’s icy crust...

600-million-year-old sedimentary rock preserving Milankovitch cycles that allow for Earth’s ancient day length to be detected. Credit: Ross Mitchell Contrary...

Extinct kangaroos displayed more diverse locomotion patterns than their modern counterparts, including quadrupedal bounding, climbing, and slower hopping, according to...

Research identifies a previously unrecognized protein, LMAN1, which binds with common allergens to cause inflammatory reactions in allergic asthma. This...

Researchers at the University of Washington have detected atomic “breathing,” or mechanical vibration between atom layers, which could help encode...