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Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet. The algae produce limonene, an orange-scented oil that helps them bind to water-repelling microplastics, forming easy-to-remove ...

A bizarre new giant dinosaur discovered in Argentina is giving paleontologists a fresh look at how Jurassic titans evolved in the Southern Hemisphere. Bicharracosaurus dionidei stretched about 20 meters long and carried a strange mix of features seen ...

Scientists revisiting mysterious 540-million-year-old microfossils from Brazil have overturned a major idea about early animal life. What were once thought to be trails left behind by tiny worm-like creatures are now believed to be fossilized ...

Scientists may have found a powerful new way to hunt for alien life -- not by searching for specific molecules, but by looking for hidden patterns in how those molecules are organized. Researchers discovered that living systems leave behind a kind of ...

Hubble has revealed a giant planet-forming disk unlike anything astronomers have seen before. Nicknamed "Dracula's Chivito," the enormous structure appears turbulent and oddly lopsided, with towering filaments visible on only one side. The disk ...

Astronomers using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope have created the clearest map yet of the universe's "cosmic web" -- the enormous hidden structure that connects galaxies across space. By analyzing more than 164,000 galaxies through the massive ...

The Toba supereruption 74,000 years ago was so massive it may have plunged Earth into years of darkness and cold, leading some scientists to believe humanity nearly went extinct. Yet archaeological evidence from Africa and Asia suggests early humans ...

Scientists have pulled off a mind-bending quantum experiment that sounds almost impossible: they showed that tiny metal particles made of thousands of atoms can exist in multiple places at once. Using advanced laser techniques, researchers at the ...

NASA's Psyche spacecraft is about to pull off a dramatic close flyby of Mars, skimming just 2,800 miles above the planet to get a powerful gravitational boost on its journey to the mysterious metal-rich asteroid Psyche. The maneuver will save ...

NASA's Curiosity rover had an unexpectedly stubborn Mars souvenir after drilling into a rock nicknamed "Atacama" -- the entire chunk ripped loose from the ground and stayed stuck to the rover's drill. Engineers watched as Curiosity shook, vibrated, . ...