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The James Webb Space Telescope captured a colorful portrait of a nearby stellar cradle, revealing a wealth of insights about ...

The James Webb telescope's search for habitable exoplanets is getting a big boost from its new star-watching companion, ...

A bacterial defense system called SPARDA employs kamikaze-like tactics to protect cells and could be useful in future ...

The internet is often called a "network of networks," including those linking devices across homes, businesses, public spaces ...

As early as 4,500 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, for instance, gender-diverse people held important roles in society with ...

Embarking from the Vehicle Assembly Building to Launch Pad 39B at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the 11 ...

A number of Roman wills reveal people leaving their heirs silver and gold in the form of bars, plates or ingots. Aside from ...

Our best models of the cosmos don't add up — but that could change if the universe is actually made of a viscous 'fluid,' a ...

A new digital system allows operations on a chip to run in parallel, so an AI program can arrive at the best possible answer ...

In the bigger picture, "down" could be defined as being below the plane of the solar system, which is known as the ecliptic.

Scientists have successfully extracted the DNA of ancient mummified cheetahs discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. This is ...