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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.

These ancient flying reptiles were not dinosaurs, but they were close relatives.

Advances in forensic science are helping to recover invisible fingerprints and identify missing people from bits of tissue or bone.

But the same thing is not happening throughout the kingdom. For instance, more than half of vertebrate populations are stable or increasing.

New details of Tut’s story are still coming to light. Here are three things to know on the 100th anniversary of his tomb’s discovery.

The first published photo shoot of developing Pelmatops flies shows how their eyes rise on gangly stalks in the first hour of adulthood.

The launch of NASA's Artemis I is a huge step toward sending humans back to the moon and beyond.

After an intense burn in 2018 in California, big cats in the region crossed roads more often. That put them at higher risk of becoming roadkill.

By reading brain scans and eavesdropping on brainwaves, scientists are learning more about how creativity works.