Scientists in Australia are boosting the country's dwindling freshwater crocodile numbers by getting the animals to stop eating a poisonous toad.

Iowa archaeologists have unearthed a 13,600-year-old mastodon skull in pristine condition during a nearly two-week excavation at an eroding creek bank in Wayne County.

A new species of Jurassic dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered by paleontologists in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed on Earth Saturday morning, with two test pilots left behind because of NASA's concerns that their return was too risky.

A bold new study in Physical Review suggests that a wobble detected in Mars' orbit could be the result of dark matter made up of primordial black holes.

A coronal mass ejection could strike the Earth's magnetosphere this week and cause a geomagnetic storm due to conditions caused by the autumnal equinox.

Venomous Blue Sea Dragons are washing up on the sandy shores of the Outer Banks in North Carolina, and National Park officials advise to admire them from a distance.

A spike in earthquakes at Mount Adams, a volcano in Washington state, prompted scientists to install additional monitoring instruments to assess the seismic activity.

NASA has released the clearest view of Mars seen thus far, with a field of blue rocks seen on the Martian landscape on top of an ancient lake.

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

The sun blasted a coronal mass at Earth earlier this week, and after back-to-back major hurricanes, some are concerned it could impact the power grid.

U.S.-based startup company Heliospect Genomics reportedly is offering wealthy couples embryo screening for IQ and other traits at $50,000 for 100 embryos.

The Orionids meteor shower peaks on Monday, but will continue to light up the sky through Nov. 22, as debris from Halley's Comet enters Earth's atmosphere.

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.

Police are hunting laughing yobs who filmed themselves hurling a cat off a bridge and posted the video on Snapchat.

As many as 115 Post Office Branches and hundreds of jobs could be at risk following a strategic review held by Post Office Chairman Nigel Railton.

A mum-of-four was tragically found dead at her home following a fire.

Police were in pursuit for half an hour down narrow country lanes

The spy writing star, whose series has become a huge television hit starring Gary Oldman, is to chair the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2025

Jill Parton, 46, suffered fatal injuries when she was hit by a freight train in Heaton Chapel in the early hours of June 3 this year, an inquest heard

Ryzen and Epyc chips have two main issues; L3 cache latency, and 'preferred core' tech.

Far Cry 6 is better than its predecessor, but only just.

GN owns audio brands like Jabra and sought a way into the eSports market.

Micro machines meets Burnout in this surprisingly brilliant little racer.

Andy delves deep into the caverns of this chassis. Worth £130?

An unusual and fascinating survival game with one of the most memorable enemies in years.

Alienware was born in a garage near Miami in 1996. The first Aurora arrived in 2004.

After years trapped in licensing hell, the classic action-RPG is back. But does it still hold up in the days of Dark Souls?

Despite a shaky beginning, Turtle Rock's cooperative shooter is a worthy successor to Left4Dead.

Budget in price, mainstream in aspiration.

Doubled number of specialists should make up for the switch from the classic class system.

New design facilitates extended graphics card compatibility and customisable options.

Depending on PC config you may see up to a 30fps uplift with anti-tamper tech ditched.

Featuring the AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 5750G, this case=heatsink PC costs from $2,179.

Welcome challenger. Why not sit down, and play a little game?

However, the comparative Win 11 AMD tests were on an unpatched (L3 cache, CPPC2) PC.

Administrative innovations in south-west Asia during the 4th millennium BCE, including the cylinder seals that were rolled on the earliest clay tablets, laid the foundations for proto-cuneiform script.

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A new genus and species of early-diverging oviraptorosaurian dinosaur has been identified from two specimens found in Inner Mongolia, China.

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Archaeologists say they have discovered the oldest known evidence for intensive ochre mining worldwide, at least 48,000 years ago, in Lion Cavern at Ngwenya in Eswatini, a landlocked country in southern Africa.

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DNA methylation is one of several epigenetic mechanisms crucial for regulating gene expression in eukaryotic organisms.

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Using a laser-based detection system, archaeologists have discovered over 6,500 pre-Hispanic structures -- including a previously unknown Maya city named Valeriana -- in Campeche, Mexico.

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When NASA’s Voyager 2 spacecraft flew by Uranus in 1986, it provided scientists’ first close glimpse of this ice-giant planet.

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An accurate description of low-density nuclear matter is crucial for explaining the physics of neutron star crusts, according to a team of theoretical physicists led by Argonne National Laboratory’s Dr. Alessandro Lovato.

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A new genus and species of ankylosaur has been identified from an articulated and partial skeleton found in 1986 in southern China.

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The standard model predicted that the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope would see dim signals from small, primitive galaxies.

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Human cognitive performance can be significantly influenced by the presence of audience members.

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Marine biologists at Queensland Museum Kurilpa have described a new species of hermit crab, Strigopagurus fragarchela (common name is the strawberry-clawed hermit), from the continental shelf off south‑east Queensland, Australia.

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Jay-yi Nah is an underwater archaeological site dating to the Early Classic Maya period (250-600 CE) that focused on salt production for local use or perhaps local production for down-the-line trading.

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Dis-Ease by Mariam Ghani uses strong visuals and compelling interviews to argue that how we see and describe disease affects how we deal with it, says Simon Ings

The World Health Organization has declared mpox a public health emergency of international concern – a new variant of the virus has caused an outbreak in Central and West Africa and spread to Sweden