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This Colorful Coastal Herb Has Been Healing People for Generations Science Finally Knows Why

Ancient Sea Cows Once Roamed the Arabian Gulf 21 Million Years Ago and Shaped Its Oceans

Scientists Found a Hidden Splash of Color in a Dinosaur We Thought Was Gray

Mother and Child Bones Tell a Dark Story of Roman Urban Life

Ancient Roman Elites Buried Their Pet Monkeys With Luxury Goods

Scientists Say Uranus and Neptune Might Not Be Ice Giants After All

Scientists Catch a Black Hole Twisting Spacetime for the First Time

Astronomers Uncover Cosmic Collision That Shook a Giant Galaxy Cluster

Astronomers Spot a Supernova So Strange It Might Finally Solve the Universe’s Biggest Mystery

Astronomers Baffled by a Month-Long, Billion-Light-Year Pulse of Light!

This Mysterious Space Blast Broke a 50-Year Record—and No One Knows Why

Even Antarctica’s Only Native Insect Is Consuming Plastic

Scientists Discover Ultra-Thin Crystal That Can Bend UV Light in Ways Never Seen Before

Scientists Build Superconducting Amplifier That Makes Backward Waves Disappear

Archaeologists Uncover Viking Woman Buried With Mysterious Shells Over Her Mouth

Ancient Construction Site Frozen by Vesuvius Solves 2,000-Year Mystery of Roman Concrete

He Lived 2,000 Years Ago. His Face Is Sparking a Modern Scientific Mystery

300-Million-Year-Old Horseshoe Crab Fossil Reveals One of the Earliest Known Animal Diseases

Young Dinosaurs Roamed Free While Their Giant Parents Lived Miles Away

Climbers Stumble Upon 1,000 Ancient Footprints That Capture a Prehistoric Panic Attack

Scientists Uncover 16,000 Dinosaur Footprints on an Ancient Bolivian Coastline—and the Behaviors They Reveal Are Stunning

Humans Don’t Just Smell Odors — They Change Their Sniffs to Match Them, Study Finds

People With Cystic Fibrosis Can Now Cut Daily Treatments and Still Stay Healthy, Study Finds

Scientists Say a Mysterious Eruption Triggered the Pandemic That Killed Millions

Scientists Find a Way to Reverse Prostate Cancer Drug Resistance — And It Hinges on One “Undruggable” Enzyme

Scientists Discover the Brain’s Shape-Shifting Cells—and They Change More Than Anyone Expected

Scientists Discover Melanoma Treatment Works Better at a Lower Dose — And Patients Live Three Times Longer

Scientists Discover That Cancer May Begin When DNA “Roads” Collapse Inside Cells

Psilocybin Reduces Negative Thought Loops and Boosts Sensory-Motor Wiring, Study Finds

15 Incredible Facts About Human Anatomy You Won’t Believe Are True