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About 3,000 years ago in ancient Mesopotamia, brickmakers imprinted the names of their kings into clay bricks. Now, an analysis of the metal grains in those bricks has confirmed a mysterious anomaly in Earth's magnetic field.

Another climate summit has come and gone. The 28th Conference of the Parties of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP28 to you and me) took stock of the world’s progress in limiting global heating to 1.5°C. This is the guardrail scientists have advised world leaders to make every…

The Chinese company iSpace's sixth Hyperbola-1 rocket lifted off from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center early Sunday (Dec. 17) morning, carrying a recoverable satellite to orbit.

The team analyzed 121 fossilized flowers and compared them to 1,201 living samples to get their results.

Unearthed by industrious coal miners in North Dakota, a mammoth tusk measuring seven feet in length has captured the attention of paleontologists. Discover...

A jaw-dropping ecosystem of crystal-clear lagoons and salt plains in Argentina's Puna de Atacama desert could offer a window onto early life on Earth and Mars.

Punishing heat that hovered and hung on much longer than usual. Flash floods that washed away large swaths of land and life. And wildfires that burned much of the year, leaving a wake of smoke and charred earth.

Taters the cat was laser-beamed for all of NASA to see; if only he knew. The post NASA Streams First Video Of Cat Named “Taters” From Deep Space Via Laser first appeared on Bored Panda.

These breakthroughs are no-doubt-about-it advances that crucially improved our medical, technological, or astronomical understanding.

Why are all living things carbon-based? Could extraterrestrial life instead be based on something like silicon?

The 15-second video of Taters the cat was beamed to Earth from NASA's Psyche spacecraft, 19 million miles (30 million kilometers) away. Taters is shown chasing a red laser light.