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Trees play a central role in life on Earth. They store CO₂, provide habitats for animals, fungi, and insects, stabilize soils ...

The six-year Dark Energy Survey has released its full results, showing that two leading models of cosmology are equally valid ...

An international collaboration of scientists from Durham University in the UK, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and École ...

An evolution-inspired framework for how quantum fuzziness gives rise to our classical world shows that even imperfect ...

The art is believed to be over 67,000 years old ...

The North American craton actually dips near the Rockies rather than forming a sharp vertical step as previously believed.

Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...

AI systems in hospitals and research facilities are processing genetic data, scans and lab results at a level that is ...

Dark matter is a mysterious substance that glues galaxies together. This map from the James Webb Space Telescope could help ...

Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

The earliest symptoms of bladder cancer may go unnoticed by patients with colorblindness or similar color vision deficiencies ...