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Experts from NASA and other international organizations recently simulated their response to a hypothetical asteroid impact scenario. The test was deemed a success. However, several media outlets have misreported the group's findings.

An ocean that opened up in what is now Mongolia 410 million years ago was created by a hot upwelling of rock known as a mantle plume.

Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico are learning to associate boat engines with food, leading to more and more cases of depredation, experts say.

Excessive brain growth in the womb has been directly tied to autism in toddlers in new research involving lab-grown "minibrains."

The science of ruining your favorite shirt is more complicated than you might think.

Some humans have always stood head and shoulders above their peers, but there's nothing mythological about these real-life human giants.

If dinosaurs were reptiles, then why aren't birds cold blooded?

A new analysis of the brains of 800 people has revealed that there may be six distinct types of depression, with potential implications for treatment.

Four AI models uncovered a human interloper in a startling viral video. But what can it teach us about intelligence?

Researchers examining the wall of a ceremonial tomb in Benin found proteins that could have come only from human blood.

New research suggests that runoff from the Greenland Ice Sheet could prevent icebergs from disrupting key ocean currents. But some scientists have cautioned that other factors may be at play.