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A gigantic space rock that slammed into Earth more than three billion years ago grievously wounded the biosphere—and then ...

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Observations from a retrofitted spy plane hint at a connection between powerful gamma-ray flashes and a thunderstorm’s ...

People are pulling their kids out of traditional education to learn while they travel. Data on educational success are ...

Michaela Maya-Mrschtik has a doctorate in molecular biology and is a medicine editor at Spektrum der Wissenschaft, a partner publication of Scientific American.

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Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID, the flu and RSV are coming. They may work better than shots in the arm ...

Fifteen years ago cosmologists were flying high. The simple but wildly successful “standard model of cosmology” could, with just a few ingredients, account for a lot of what we see in the ...

Their dream came spectacularly true on that momentous day in 1974. The Lucy fossil preserved skull fragments and a lower jaw ...