In 1865, two dozen Union soldiers, all formerly enslaved, were ambushed and killed along a road in Kentucky. Archaeologists ...

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Comet 3I/ATLAS reaches its closest point to the Sun today, facing a final test of Avi Loeb's 'alien ship' theory. Will it ...

Paleontologists spotted injuries on the tails of duck-billed dinosaur fossils that might have occurred during mating.

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"Emotional precision," research shows, protects you from stress and depression. Here's what that means—and what you can do to ...

There is no evidence to support the idea that this interstellar object is anything but a comet, but let's double-check.

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In this adapted excerpt from "How to Change a Memory," author and neuroscientist Steve Ramirez recounts the events that led ...

Physicists show knotted cosmic strings may have dominated the early universe before collapsing to create matter—a theory ...

Pairs of black holes have been detected in the past through their gravitational effects, but until now, scientists have never ...