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For thousands of years, people in Taiwan pulled out healthy teeth. Now we know why they underwent this painful procedure.

Over the past 41,000 years, viral communities have varied significantly between cold and warm climatic periods, scientists found.

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The Taichi-II chiplet, which could one day power super-intelligent AI models, ups the ante in light-based processing.

Rare fossilized sea cow unearthed by a local farmer in Venezuela appears to have been killed by a croc then eaten by a tiger shark.

Researchers have identified two distinct mechanisms of drug resistance in C. difficile, but its ability to withstand antibiotics comes with downsides for the bacteria.

Scientists are trying to decipher what drove the recent dramatic cooling of the tropical Atlantic, but so far few clues have emerged. "We are still scratching our heads as to what's actually happening," the researchers said.

Scientists might be on track to revealing new facets of physics.

A new reactor creates ammonia from polluted wastewater using electricity, and it's way more efficient than existing methods.

Wasted radio signals can be converted into electricity using a new kind of antenna rooted in how electrons behave at a quantum level.

Astronomers have traced the origins of 200 meteorites to five impact craters in two volcanic regions on Mars, known as Tharsis and Elysium.

The North Star's surface is surprisingly spotty, new high-definition observations of Polaris reveal.

Every so often, astronomers detect a supernova explosion that's 100 times brighter than it should be. A new paper may reveal the strange source of these "superluminous" supernovas.

A researcher describes the technology behind a device that translates thoughts into words for people who cannot otherwise speak.

A new study suggests that millions of tiny space rock fragments, which were ejected from the 2022 collision between asteroid Dimorphos and NASA's DART spacecraft, may be on a collision course with Earth and Mars.

The 17th-century sword was found in a cellar that was destroyed during World War II, but it's unknown how it ended up there.

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Quantum compasses need six atom interferometers, each the size of a small room, to work. But scientists have made crucial steps to miniaturizing these devices.

Medical anthropologist and bioethicist Julia Brown says scientists and nonscientists need to talk about whether and how we should use CRISPR to edit the fetal genome.

Earth from space A recent landslide along the banks of a river in British Columbia completely dammed the waterway, leading to evacuation warnings and potentially dooming an endangered fish population trapped on the wrong side of the debris.