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A new analysis of the ancient human footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico offers more evidence that they are around 23,000 years old.

Flipping the switch on fewer than 500 neurons dramatically reduces the alcohol consumption of mice. This novel finding could lead to new targets for therapeutics.

Half a decade after receiving a psychedelic treatment for depression, two-thirds of patients in a new study remained in remission.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory will share its first highly-detailed images of the sky on Monday. Find details about how to see them here.

How did Homo sapiens manage to leave Africa around 50,000 years ago, when earlier treks out of the continent had ended in failure?

Researchers detected mysterious radio waves in Antarctica that seem to defy the rules of particle physics. Now they're searching for a cause.

Mount Lewotobi Laki-laki erupted on Tuesday and Wednesday, unleashing gigantic ash plumes and showering villages with volcanic debris.

Researchers from the U.K. plan to launch a CubeSat covered with a newly formulated "hull-darkening" Vantablack paint into space next year. If successful, the coating could help mitigate light pollution from private satellite "megaconstellations."

"Digesters" that convert methane from manure ponds into fuel can dramatically reduce emissions of this potent greenhouse gas on dairy farms, scientists have found.

Scientists have determined that a giant skull from an ancient human relative named the "Dragon Man" is actually Denisovan.

The James Webb Space Telescope has notched another milestone, capturing a direct image of one of the coldest and oldest known exoplanets.

Unitree's combat robots can punch and kick while keeping their balance, but they are controlled by humans — for now.

Much of the universe's regular "baryonic" matter is spread through intergalactic space and in diffuse halos around galaxies, researchers proposed after studying the behavior of fast radio bursts emitted from deep space.

Researchers have used an AI model to create a new image of the black hole at the center of our galaxy. But some experts are skeptical of the results.

Samples from slag cliffs in England reveal industrial waste products can turn into rock in less than four decades, challenging assumptions about how rocks form.

Ancient supernovas may have blasted Earth with powerful radiation, causing dramatic changes in our climate, and could do so again, posing a threat to life.

Microsoft's Aurora AI beat existing systems in predicting weather conditions over a 14-day period in 91% of cases, including hurricanes, sandstorms and ocean swells.

The James Webb Space Telescope has revealed dozens of tiny, distant galaxies piercing the fog of the cosmic dark age in the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Researchers think the Viking Age boat burial of a woman and her pooch in Norway dates to between A.D. 900 and 950.

Tiny, orange glass beads discovered on the moon during the Apollo era may reveal an untold history of lunar volcanism.