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Geologists have reconstructed a quarter-of-a-billion-year-long history of a vanished landmass now submerged largely below southern Europe.

Modern humans and more ancient hominins interbred many times throughout Eurasia and Africa, and the genetic flow went both ways.

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Our silence in the face of new anti-choice laws across the U.S. is deafening

We should apply science to the problem of mass shootings. The Senate should pass the House bill funding research on gun violence, and the country should stop scapegoating people who suffer from mental illness.

The “sensitivity” conjecture stumped many top computer scientists, yet the new proof is so simple that one researcher summed it up in a single tweet.

We cannot be certain, despite what many have contended, that the Universe began from a singularity. We can, however, break the illustration you see into the different eras based on properties the Universe had at those particular times.

A million people have signed up to "raid" Area 51, mostly as a goof. But to seriously look for extraterrestrials, where do you look? And how?

Theories about how animals became multicellular are shifting as researchers find greater complexity in our single-celled ancestors.