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A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

From Viking to Perseverance, scientists have spent decades chasing chemical hints that could point to life beyond Earth.

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One of the biggest quests in biology is understanding how every cell in an animal's body carries an identical genome yet ...

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A new study led by a researcher from the School of Zoology and the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History at Tel Aviv ...

The sci-fi series Alien Nation, which starred Gary Graham and Eric Pierpoint, was a futuristic cop show that deserved more ...

A 430-million-year-old fossil reveals that the first leeches were ocean predators, not bloodsuckers. The discovery radically ...

Even after two years since its reveal at The Game Awards 2023, Archetype Entertainment's sci-fi action-RPG Exodus is still ...

The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.