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NASA lost communication with its MAVEN probe nearly a month ago, and efforts to re-establish a connection have been futile.

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Here's a deep look at 25 years of tech evolution and how smartphones, AI, cloud, digital finance, and platforms changed human ...

A new analysis of these primordial bones offers evidence that Sahelanthropus was our first known ancestor to regularly walk on two feet, a sign that bipedalism evolved early in our lineage.

A Geochemist’s research on the age of the planet eventually brought the leaded gasoline era to a halt, and ended the ...

Researchers from the Wuhan Botanical Garden of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Ghent University introduced ...

Like in humans, microbe levels can indicate health of ecosystem, say scientists from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Haifa ...

Balanophora may look like a mushroom, but instead of being a fungus, it's a parasitic plant with rare traits that puzzle ...

Although the New Year’s Honours list was made public a few days ago, people are often confused by the various honours given and how they originated ...