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Between 15 million and 6 million years ago, a drop in ocean crust production may have lowered sea level by 26 to 32 meters.

A team of physicists at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, in Menlo Park, California, generated the highest-current, highest-peak-power electron beams ever produced. The team has published their paper in Physical ...

A new look at an ancient eruption at Campi Flegrei raises new questions about the propensity of the still-active volcano, located near Naples, to produce major eruptions in the future.

Beautifully captured against a starry sky, Comet C/2024 G3 (ATLAS) -- dubbed by some as the "Great Comet of 2025" -- shines brightly after its last approach to the sun for hundreds of thousands of years.

"Stink face" seems silly to us, but for cats it's a serious way to gather social information through smell.

If life exists on other planets, it needs to be adaptable to extreme environments. To get a clue of what it might look like, we can turn to a surprising place: the human gut.