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Learn how ancient Roman coins helped researchers create a new map of the Roman Republic’s economy using digital archaeology.

1,500 Animal Remains and Tools Suggest Neanderthals Returned to This Spanish Cave for Generations

66-Million-Year-Old Mineralized Blood Vessels Reveal How the Largest Known T. rex Began Healing a Broken Rib

Aluminum Eggshells Could One Day Help Protect Spacecraft From Dangerous Space Debris

How You Sit Matters, and Breaking Up Long Sessions May Lower Cancer Death Risk

The 2D MOT apparatus

Einstein's Equivalence Principle Passes a Quantum Test

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Scientists Captured Trillionth-of-a-Second Snapshots of a Chemical Reaction Essential to Life

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More Than 1,200 Genetic Variants Linked to Personality Traits Like Extraversion and Conscientiousness

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165-Million-Year-Old Insect Fossils Help Reconstruct What a Jurassic Forest May Have Sounded Like

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Ancient Blacksmiths May Have Hammered Away a Meteorite's Cosmic Signature

Young chimpanzee reaching toward an adult chimpanzee sitting in a forested enclosure.

Young Chimpanzees Develop Distinct Vocal Accents That Become Stronger With Age

Gemini North image of NGC 7253, two interacting spiral galaxies with distorted arms and bright pink star-forming regions.

Hawaiʻi Students Help Name a Pair of Merging Galaxies More Than 200 Million Light-Years Away

: Artistic rendering of Miracinonyx chasing a hoofed animal through a rocky Pleistocene landscape.

30,000-Year-Old Fossils Reveal the “American Cheetah” Was Actually More Like a Puma

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Octopus Clinging to a Risso’s Dolphin May Offer Clues to Southwest England’s Remarkable Octopus Boom

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An open page from an eighth-century parchment manuscript of St. Paul’s Epistles that researchers examined for ancient sheeppox virus DNA.

DNA From a Deadly Sheep Virus Survived for Centuries Beneath Medieval Ink

Gloved researcher examines dried psilocybin mushrooms with a magnifying glass.

Two Doses of Psilocybin Protected Mice From Nerve Damage Through Six Chemotherapy Cycles

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