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Nearly three fourths of Earth is covered by oceans, making the planet look like a pale blue dot from space.

Anthrax poisoning has killed about 50 hippos in Virunga, Africa's oldest national park located in the Democratic Republic of Congo's troubled east, the head of the park told AFP on Tuesday.

Making incisions and carefully taking samples, the scientists at a laboratory in Russia's far east looked like pathologists carrying out a post-mortem.

A container of oil and water separated by a thin skin of magnetized particles has intrigued a team of chemical engineers by taking on an unexpected 'Grecian urn' shape upon agitation.

A special type of chewing gum can 'trap' and neutralize some influenza and herpes viruses, according to new experiments from scientists in the US and Finland.

In 2021, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) released a report detailing recently declassified information on Unidentified Aerial Phenomena (UAP).

At a newly dated 5,200 years old, the Flagstones monument in southern England is now the oldest known large stone circle in Britain.

In the UK, more than 10% of the population is estimated to have some stage of chronic kidney disease and more than 600,000 people develop some form of acute kidney injury - when the kidneys suddenly stop working properly but can recover - each year.

When asteroid 2024 YR4 first revealed itself to humans on 27 December 2024, it seemed to have just shown up out of nowhere.

Geologists have made certain assumptions about how the crust making up our planet's earliest surface formed, but a new study has found that Earth's very first protocrust was surprisingly similar to the shell of solid rock in place today.