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Elite horse-riding nomads may have passed on political power through family lineages, rather than winning it through achievements, based on ancient DNA from elaborately decorated burial sites during the Iron Age, according to a new study.
The study adds to growing evidence that Homo floresiensis, which had a brain only slightly bigger than that of a chimpanzee, wasn’t as advanced as scientists previously believed.
Authorities launched the expanded drone program on Wednesday to protect beachgoers after a spate of shark attacks in Sydney and further across New South Wales.
Is there an animal that’s more Canadian than the beaver, moose or Canada goose? It could be a toad that has so far only been found in the Canadian Rockies.
A three-armed spacecraft rocketed into orbit Friday to rescue a NASA telescope that’s in danger of crashing back to Earth.
Vera C. Rubin Observatory says every 40 seconds of nighttime for the next 10 years, a camera the size of a small car will capture strikingly detailed images of the southern sky, stitching together a time-lapse panorama of intergalactic evolution that could help unlock some of the universe’s lingering mysteries.
A skeleton found beneath a Maastricht church this year could not be conclusively identified as that of famed French musketeer Charles de Batz de Castelmore d’Artagnan, city authorities said on Thursday, with some findings raising fresh questions about the theory.
A rush rescue mission to save a NASA space telescope remains grounded, this time because of a last-minute launch problem.
Hot weather of the kind sweeping the eastern U.S. drives up electricity demand for data centres, adding to their strain on power grids and worsening air quality for surrounding areas.
A large asteroid will zip past Earth this weekend, but don’t worry: It poses no danger.
TikTok settled a lawsuit with a teenager just weeks before the company was set to go to trial in a second landmark case over whether social media companies are responsible for the harms their products might cause.
Scientists studied the remains of a mysterious human relative called Homo naledi found deep in a South African cave and determined they were all female.
Sony said Wednesday that it would stop releasing new video games for the PlayStation on disc in January 2028 following a shift in consumer preferences.
Scientists say they have built a cell from scratch for the first time that can feed, grow and replicate like a natural cell. This breakthrough in synthetic biology could usher in an era of made-to-order organisms that function like living machines.
Cannibalism became taboo in human societies not out of instinctive aversion but because it is harmful to populations who practice it, scientists from Poland and the Czech Republic have found.
NASA’s moon base plans, conceptualized just a few months ago, are rolling out in earnest as the space agency maps out plans to deliver landers, rovers, buggies and other assets to the lunar surface.
