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First-of-its-kind video captures the terrifying moment the ground tore apart during major Myanmar earthquake

A security camera near Thazi, Myanmar, captured the earth cracking during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March.

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'River of fire' unleashes toxic gases as eruption destroys town in La Palma — Earth from space

A 2021 satellite image shows destructive lava flows burning through a residential area in the Canary Islands as molten rock spilled into the sea and unleashed surprising levels of volcanic gas.

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'Ultimate adventure story': Submerged stone circles reveal perilous migration of prehistoric people to far northern Scotland 11,000 years ago

Stone tools and stone circles discovered in coastal Scotland show that prehistoric people settled farther north than anyone previously believed.

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The Milky Way will be visible across the US this month. Here's how to get the best views.

For those in midlatitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, the arc of our galaxy becomes easier to see in May. Here's when and where to look.

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Which planets have rings?

Does Jupiter have rings? How about Uranus? Here's everything you need to know about which planets have rings.

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Viking DNA helps reveal when HIV-fighting gene mutation emerged: 9,000 years ago near the Black Sea

A study of more than 3,000 genomes has traced a gene mutation that confers HIV resistance to a person who lived near the Black Sea around 7000 B.C.

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Listeria outbreak that hospitalized 10 linked to California company's ready-to-eat products

A likely source of contamination has been identified in an ongoing Listeria outbreak affecting California and Nevada.

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Scientists find hint of hidden liquid water ocean deep below Mars' surface

By studying seismic waves, researchers have found a layer deep beneath the surface of Mars that could contain enough liquid water to flood the planet with an ocean thousands of feet deep.

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Yosemite's ultra-deep canyon may have been carved in part by a ghost volcano and river, provocative research suggests

A river that drained the slopes of a now-vanished volcano may have carved Yosemite Valley's depths during the last 10 million years.

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Only 0.001% of deep ocean has ever been explored by humans — an area equal to the size of Rhode Island

Despite the deep ocean floor coating some 66% of our planet's surface, we haven't explored 99.999% of it, study finds.

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Famous tomb said to hold Alexander the Great's father actually contains younger man, a woman and 6 babies, study finds

Ancient human remains in a famous Greek tomb can't be Alexander the Great's father after all, a scientific analysis reveals.

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See the reconstructed home of 'polar dinosaurs' that thrived in the Antarctic 120 million years ago

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, scientists have re-created the habitat of "polar dinosaurs," using these plant remains.

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Could a planet really develop a brain?

"My contention is that Earth may, if we are lucky and diligent and clever enough, grow an emergent superconsciousness."

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What are neural processing units (NPUs) and why are they so important to modern computing?

Neural processing unts (NPUs) are the latest chips you might find in smartphones and laptops — but what are they ard why are they so important?

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Hatnefer's heart scarab: An exquisite ancient Egyptian gold necklace inscribed with the Book of the Dead

A scarab beetle set in gold shows that ancient Egyptians thought the heart was the most important organ in the human body.

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What's hiding under Antarctica's ice?

Antarctica is the fifth-largest continent by size, so what's hiding under its massive sheaths of ice?

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Images capturing a starving tiger, fighting bison and pit of vipers honored in environmental photography awards

Winners and runners-up of the Prince Albert II of Monaco Foundation's 2025 Environmental Photography Award revealed.

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Space photo of the week: Bizarre 1-armed spiral galaxy stuns Hubble scientists

Astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to image "peculiar" galaxy Arp 184 (NGC 1961) about 190 million light-years away. Remarkably, the spiral galaxy has only one visible arm.

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When was math invented?

Humans started counting tens of thousands of years ago, but when did they begin figuring out advanced arithmetic, algebra and even calculus?

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Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 crashes back to Earth, disappearing into Indian Ocean after 53 years in orbit

The failed Soviet spacecraft Kosmos 482 has finally returned to Earth after 53 years in orbit. It disappeared into the Indian Ocean early Saturday morning.

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Hoatzin: The strange 'stinkbird' born with clawed wings that appears to be an evolutionary 'orphan'

This weird blue-faced, red-eyed bird smells so bad predators won't eat it.

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Solution to 'cocktail party problem' could help people with hearing loss

Researchers drew inspiration from the auditory system to design a solution for the "cocktail party problem."

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What's the difference between apes and monkeys?

Primatologists explain how apes and monkeys differ.

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World's largest atom smasher turned lead into gold — and then destroyed it in an instant

The world's largest particle collider produces roughly 89,000 gold nuclei every second, all from smashing lead atoms together at near-light-speed.

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Plants: Facts about our oxygen providers

Discover interesting facts about why plants are green, if they feel pain, and if they get cancer.

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