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Little Foot is a near-complete Australopithecus skeleton — the most complete ever discovered — from South Africa. Researchers ...

A rare interstellar comet will sweep past Earth this week at a safe distance, giving scientists a brief chance to study ...

A nationwide study revealed that insufficient sleep is second only to smoking in predicting shorter life expectancy across ...

The new dataset, published in Earth System Science Data by 16 scientists, shows a significantly cooler Earth from the late ...