The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

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Charles “Buffalo” Jones invented the cow-buffalo hybrid in 1888. His intention? To create the hardiest free-range livestock ...

New simulations of Milky Way-like galaxies reveal that the strange split between two chemically distinct groups of stars may ...

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A humorous yet scientific study explored the formation of navel fluff, revealing abdominal hair's role in collecting clothing ...

The discovery In May 1925 provided fodder for the argument between creationists and evolutionary biologists, but what does ...

Two basic education department officials have been suspended over the discovery that matric exam papers were leaked to seven ...

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Space communications expert, Alexandra Doten, has explained what the discovery of a gum-like substance on an asteroid 63 ...

A Mars rover has discovered strange, bleached rocks that suggest Mars may have once been wet and warm. Researchers at Purdue ...

Interrupting one function of a protein that plays a key role in cell signaling could enable the development of new cancer ...