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Broken spikes on a fossil dino’s sides are consistent with the armored beast having received a mighty blow from another ankylosaur’s tail club.

The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends that middle and high schools start no earlier than 8:30 a.m.

Needing no batteries, a new digital camera can run almost continuously to offer new, deeper insights into the ocean world.

Like clockwork, radioactive forms of some elements shed parts of themselves as they attempt to become nonradioactive.

Super-small structures on the Arctic animals’ paws might offer extra friction that keeps them from slipping on snow, a new study concludes.

The force of friction always acts to slow things down. It depends on just two factors: the surfaces and how hard they press together.

The tiny plastic bits give these germs safe havens. That protection seems to increase as the plastic ages and breaks into ever smaller pieces.

In what could be a boon to forensics, Iowa State University chemists have come up with a way to analyze the age of fingerprints.

Carbon-14 dating of recent artifacts will soon give scientists confusing results. That’s another price society pays for its reliance on fossil fuels.

Individual seeds on a dandelion release most easily in response to winds from a specific direction. As the wind shifts, this scatters the seeds widely.

Access to the internet is a human right, yet much of the world can’t get online. New tech has to be affordable and usable to end this digital divide.

Ayla was treated before birth for the rare, life-threatening Pompe disease. Now a thriving 16-month-old toddler, her treatments will still need to continue.