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Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.

A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of CO2 produced by cars in the U.S. every year.

The "city killer" asteroid 2024 YR4 won't hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations confirm.

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.

Scientists in Italy captured a red fox entering a den as part of a project to understand wolf population dynamics in the country.

A new vehicle is the first mass-produced passenger EV with a viable sodium-based alternative to conventional lithium-ion batteries.

An experimental treatment reduces seizures and other symptoms in children with a type of epilepsy called Dravet syndrome.

When does daylight saving time begin in 2026? Here's a look at when the time changes this year, and why we change our clocks in the first place.

The tiny bots follow patterns of light and "artificial space-time," navigating like craft following the curved space around a black hole.

A 12th-century sword spotted jutting out of the seabed in Israel was designed for one-handed combat during the Crusades.

With potential safety improvements and lower manufacturing costs, Na-ion batteries are coming of age at precisely the right time.

The experimental manufacturing process could one day deliver a vehicle with a 1,000-plus mile range, researchers say.

Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling to find out why.

An academic dives into the physics of multiple dimensions and whether it's possible to tie a knot in 4D.

Astronomers have discovered the brightest and most distant "megamaser" to date. The cosmic energy beam is shooting toward Earth from 8 billion light-years away and was spotted thanks to a weird space-time trick first predicted by Einstein.

Detached orca fins scored with distinctive tooth marks suggest that killer whale cannibalism is happening — and it might explain some complex orca societies.

NASA's Artemis II is on track to shoot for the moon in April after engineers fixed the helium issue that grounded the mission's rocket last month.

Researchers have revealed that North American birds are declining at an accelerating rate in three regional hotspots associated with intense agriculture.

The portable computing powerhouse is capable of running 120-billion-parameter LLMs, roughly three times larger than GPT-3, without needing to access the internet or the cloud.

Antarctica is covered by a miles-thick ice sheet, but was that always the case? And when was the coldest continent ice-free?