Scientists are uncovering new clues that a cosmic explosion may have rocked Earth at the end of the last ice age. At major ...

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This protozoan causes dysentery and is notoriously difficult to detect in archaeological samples because, unlike worms, it ...

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A double blast of dying stars may be the first observed case of a long-hypothesized, never proven “superkilonova.” Although astronomers are still searching for concrete answers, a study published in ...

This compilation features five liquid nitrogen experiments that show what extreme cold really does to everyday materials.

Ten years before Rob and Michele Reiner were killed in their home, Rob made a movie about the family's tensions, including with son Nick Chef saves elderly man after he didn't show up at restaurant he ...

Scientists have discovered that gut-born bacteria may hold the secret for treatments of everything from IBD to Parkinson’s disease. Now they just need samples from the people living in the most ...

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Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman. If you’re of a certain generation, you might be able to trace your affinity for orcas to ...

A new pterosaur species was recently discovered in the vomit of a dino. But that's just the start of revelations from prehistoric excretions. Millions of years ago, a predator like spinosaurus (shown ...