Once they awaken, these microbes continue to break down soil and release carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.

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In this video, I recreate a dark, forbidden lab, where inhumane experiments are carried out on helpless pets, all in an attempt to resurrect a powerful ancient creature—the Dire Wolf. This diorama, ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

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“The hand shows it could form precision grips similar to ours, while also retaining powerful grasping capabilities more like ...

A study looking at ancient texts may have found evidence of a galactic supernova in a poem praising Saladin, the first sultan of Egypt and Syria, written between December 1181 and May 1182 CE. The ...

Archaeologists in China found a collection of human bones that showed signs of being "worked" like any other natural material ...

For more than half a century, scientists have debated whether Paranthropus boisei, an extinct human relative known for its ...

The first-ever detection of this rare form of water in a protoplanetary disk suggests that what we drink might have been ...