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November's full Beaver supermoon will occur on Nov. 5, but it will be best seen the following evening as it rises into the sky in the east.

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Earth's systems are nearing tipping points that could plunge the planet into a "hothouse" regime — but there's still time to prevent that from happening, scientists say.

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Teeth and bones may appear alike, but they actually have more differences than similarities.

By Patrick Pester published
Authorities have killed several lab monkeys that escaped from an overturned truck in Mississippi. The rhesus macaques were initially thought to be diseased and dangerous, but that's not necessarily the case.

By Patrick Pester published
Researchers have unearthed two dinosaur "mummies" in the badlands of Wyoming, confirming duck-billed dinosaurs had hooves, alongside a string of other discoveries.

By Patrick Pester published
New dating has revealed that New Mexico's last dinosaurs were healthy, diverse and thriving at the end of the Cretaceous period, suggesting non-avian dinosaurs weren't in decline before being snuffed out by the asteroid strike.

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Opinion How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.

By Kit Yates published
Opinion Thousands of scientific papers are retracted every year because of fraudulent activity, with both authors and journals gaming a system to gain academic acclaim through deceit, dishonesty and false representation.

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When does daylight saving time end in 2025? Here's a look at when the time changes this year, and why we change our clocks in the first place.

By Andrey Feldman published
A mysterious glow at the center of the Milky Way has puzzled astronomers for more than a decade. New research offers an explanation that could also reshape what we know about dark matter.

By Tia Ghose published
Carolyn Bertozzi and colleagues laid out a way to make paradigm-shifting "click-chemistry" compatible with living cells, opening up a window into living organisms.

By Bobby Hellard published
Researchers have developed a chemical structure for an artificial muscle that can lift up to 4,000 times its weight, and they say it could be used in future humanoid robots.

By Kimberley Lane published
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By Tia Ghose published
Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet.
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