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A set of ancient wooden spears may be younger than scientists thought and wielded by Neanderthals instead of their ancestors.
A new study shows that chimpanzees drum with regular rhythm when they beat on tree trunks.
A half-ton spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union 53 years ago is expected to fall back to Earth this weekend.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said it will no longer track the cost of weather disasters, including floods, heat waves, wildfires and more.
A new study out in the journal Nature Communications Earth & Environment finds that wildfires fueled by climate change are linked to as many as thousands of annual deaths and billions of dollars in economic burden.
Two Belgian teenagers found with 5,000 ants in Kenya have been fined $7,700 or the option to serve 12 months in prison — the minimum penalty for the offense — for violating wildlife conservation laws.
A private lunar lander from Japan is now orbiting the moon, with just another month to go before it attempts a touchdown.
Three Democratic U.S. senators are asking the Trump administration to explain how it analyzed a proposed rule to eliminate habitat protections for endangered and threatened species — and whether industry had a hand in drafting it.
The European Union is launching a drive to attract scientists and researchers with offers of grants and new policy plans.
The Environmental Protection Agency on Friday announced a broad reorganization as part of the Trump administration’s drive to cut costs that some activists worry will harm the agency’s independent scientific research.
Some Denver parents got texts during this winter's brutal flu season with videos sharing why people in their neighborhoods chose flu shots for their kids.
As the federal government rolls back fishing restrictions in the Pacific Remote Islands, California is reviewing its network of marine protected areas.
Two major scientific societies say they will try to fill the void from the Trump administration’s dismissal of scientists writing a cornerstone federal report on what climate change is doing to the United States.
A Wisconsin man has been bitten by snakes hundreds of times, and scientists are studying his blood to treat snakebite.
A Soviet-era spacecraft meant to land on Venus in the 1970s is expected to soon plunge uncontrolled back to Earth.
The federal government is expanding the reasons international students can be stripped of their legal status in the U.S., where thousands have come under scrutiny in a Trump administration crackdown that has left many afraid of being deported.
NASA's oldest full-time astronaut is back home and doing well a week after wrapping up a seven-month space mission.
However, this invasive plant has become a threat to many southern states — and if you live in the Sunshine State, you’ve likely come across it on more than a few occasions. State records show that kudzu is a type of vine that stems from Asia, where it was used for centuries as food for livestock and to help prevent erosion.
People with diseases caused by rare mutations have fewer options and poorer prospects than other patients despite rapid recent advancements in the growing field of genetic science.
Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to end support of research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation.
Harmful bleaching of the world’s coral has now grown to include 84% of the ocean’s reefs in the most intense event of its kind in recorded history.
A Soyuz capsule carrying two Russian cosmonauts and one American astronaut safely landed Sunday in Kazakhstan, concluding a 220-day mission aboard the International Space Station.
A new global survey finds that endangered sea turtles show signs of recovery in a majority of places where they’re found worldwide.
The Trump administration plans to rewrite part of the Endangered Species Act that prohibits harming the habitats of endangered and threatened species.
A colossal squid has been captured on camera for the first time in the deep sea by an international team of researchers steering a remotely operated submersible.
Scientists may have found a new Tatooine-like planet outside the solar system that orbits two failed stars.
An unusual convoy is nearing Argentina’s lush border with Brazil, after snaking through traffic-snarled roads for hours.
In a high-stakes standoff, President Donald Trump’s administration says it will freeze $2.2 billion in federal research grants for Harvard University, which is pushing back on demands for changes to campus policy.
The speed and scope of the federal government’s efforts to terminate the legal status of international students have stunned colleges and universities across the country.
Two Belgian teenagers have been charged in Kenya with wildlife piracy after they were found with thousands of ants packed in test tubes in what Kenyan authorities said was part of a trend in trafficking smaller and lesser known species.
U.S. researchers are about to test if livers from gene-edited pigs could treat people with sudden liver failure — not with a transplant but temporarily attached outside the body.
Blue Origin has launched Jeff Bezos' fiancee Lauren Sanchez into space with an all-female celebrity crew that included Katy Perry and Gayle King.
Turkey has begun a new phase in sweeping restorations of the nearly 1,500-year-old Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, focusing on preserving the monument’s historic domes from the threat of earthquakes.
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has attended the opening ceremony for Expo 2025 Osaka and expressed his hope that the event will help restore global unity in a world is plagued by conflicts and trade wars.
Researchers say a fossil jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors.
The nominee for NASA's top job is outlining his vision for space exploration, highlighting Mars.
The asteroid that once had a small chance of striking Earth and now might slam into the moon resembles a spinning hockey puck.
The Prague Zoo has joined an international effort to ensure the survival of a rare insect that had been considered extinct for more than 80 years.
An altar from the Teotihuacan culture, at the pre-Hispanic heart of what became Mexico, has been discovered in Tikal National Park in Guatemala, the center of Mayan culture, demonstrating the interaction between the two societies.
A company that aims to bring back lost species say they have genetically engineered wolves with white hair and muscular jaws like the extinct dire wolf.
The National Weather Service is no longer providing translations of its products after its contract with an artificial intelligence company was allowed to lapse.
President Donald Trump's administration has rolled back environmental protections around future logging projects on more than half of U.S. national forests under an emergency designation issued Friday that cites the dangers of wildfires.
Data obtained by The Associated Press shows that close to half of the local National Weather Service forecast offices have 20% vacancy rates as severe weather chugs across the nation’s heartland.
A crackdown on foreign students is alarming college leaders, who say the Trump administration is using new tactics and vague justifications to push some students out of the country.
A White House official says the Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University.
Extreme weather is dangerous weather, and that’s particularly true for the heavy rainfall events that experts say are becoming more frequent with climate change.
A group of scientists and health groups sued the National Institutes of Health on Wednesday, arguing that an “ideological purge” of research funding is illegal and threatens medical cures.
NASA's Webb telescope has captured pictures of the asteroid that caused a stir earlier this year when it topped Earth's hit list.
A volcano in southwestern Iceland that has erupted repeatedly for more than a year again belched lava and smoke into the air, just hours after authorities evacuated the few remaining residents of a nearby fishing village.
A bitcoin investor is headed to space with three polar explorers on the first flight to carry people over the North and South poles.
Harvard University has become the latest target in the Trump administration’s approach to fight campus antisemitism.
NASA's celebrity astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams say they would fly on Boeing's Starliner capsule again.
Dow, a major producer of chemicals and plastics, wants to use next-generation nuclear reactors for clean power and steam at a Texas manufacturing complex instead of natural gas.
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have returned to Earth after being stuck in space for more than nine months.
Scientists who want to learn more about a tiny, newly discovered flower in West Texas are hoping it will bloom again in a couple of weeks after rain finally fell in the area.
A federal judge in Florida has blocked the imports of a high-priced Chilean sea bass from protected waters near Antarctica.
Public funding for agricultural research in the U.S. has been declining for the last two decades, a process Trump has rapidly accelerated by freezing or pausing support for a variety of research programs financed by the USDA, EPA and other organizations.
A rocket by a private European aerospace company launched from Norway on Sunday and crashed into the sea 30 seconds later.
The smell of decaying bodies permeated the streets of Myanmar’s second-largest city on Sunday as people worked frantically by hand to clear rubble in the hope of finding someone still alive, two days after a massive earthquake struck that killed more than 1,600 people and left countless others buried.
The top vaccine official with the Food and Drug Administration has resigned and criticized the nation's top health official for allowing “misinformation and lies” to guide his thinking behind the safety of vaccinations.
U.S. states are positioning themselves to compete for newer, cheaper nuclear reactors being developed as communities and tech giants compete in a race for electricity.
Researchers have performed the first known transplant of sperm-producing stem cells in hopes of restoring fertility in a man who survived childhood cancer.
