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The destruction caused by Hurricane Ian has left 600,000 Florida homes without power and many without clean water after the storm battered Florida, Cuba and the US east coast

Researchers in Israel discovered a hoard of 44 gold coins from the Byzantine Empire.

Researchers in China have discovered fossilized fragments of an ancient shark-like fish -- the oldest jawed vertebrate ever discovered.

Early humans evolved a faster fetal growth rate than other apes about a million years ago, suggesting it could have played a role in the evolution of our species

Geneticist Svante Pääbo has been awarded a Nobel prize for his work on evolutionary genetics

Scientists found fungus in different types of tumors.

Playing a rhythm-based game helped people remember faces and boosted activity in the brain's right superior parietal lobe, which hints at how learning music can help short-term memory

The venerable stock image site, Getty, boasts a catalog of 80 million images. Shutterstock, a rival of Getty, offers 415 million images. It took a few decades to build up these prodigious libraries. Now, it seems we’ll...

Researchers have shown that 3D laser printing can be used to fabricate a high-quality, complex polymer optical device directly on the end of an optical fiber. This type of micro-optical device--which has details smaller ...

Archaeologists investigating an early Neolithic settlement in Slovakia have discovered the remains of about 35 people, many of them teenagers, who appear to have been decapitated and then thrown into a ditch almost 7,000...

The global spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the importance of rapid, accurate, and easy sensing of viruses and diseases. Recently, researchers have been exploring on-chip sensing technologies to tackle these emerging c...

Laser ablation in liquid is a scalable nanoparticle production method in areas like catalysis and biomedicine. Different energy dissipation channels, such as absorption by the liquid and scattering at the ablation plume ...

Archaeologists once viewed ancient Nubia as separate from and inferior to Egypt. But research is now showing the Nubians had their own rich culture that powerfully influenced the land of the pharaohs

Pääbo's work focused on extracting DNA from ancient pieces of bone

Here's a look at past winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Svante Paabo also discovered an entire, new human species

Is it a good or bad idea to eat before bed? We asked sleep experts for their take on a pre-bedtime snack

The proton is a composite particle made up of fundamental building blocks of quarks and gluons. These components and their interactions determine the proton's structure, including its electrical charges and currents. Thi...

The Ergatta Rower makes fitness fun -- our fitness writer tried it and now they're hooked

Using forensic technology, researchers reanimate medieval skulls.