Archaeologists say they've discovered the earliest known bone tools in...

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The Mountain View City Council voted on May 5, 2020 to allow Starship Technologies’ robots on city streets. Founded in 2014, Starship operates no-contact delivery robots in several cities around the world. How would the autonomous robots react to disabled...

Bet you didn't know you have a mini-seismometer in your hand. Android is making use of the smartphone accelerometer for the new earthquake...

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The Planet Earth-observation company releases new imagery of Canada's broken Milne Ice...

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Huge stocks of greenhouse gases tied up in peatlands could be released as the world...

European spacecraft track in fine detail the thinning that's occurred at the continent's...

The dwarf planet Ceres -- long believed to be a barren space rock -- is an ocean world with reservoirs of sea water beneath its surface, the results of a major exploration mission showed Monday. Ceres is the largest object in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter and has its own gravity, enabling the NASA Dawn spacecraft to capture high-resolution images of its...

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Eight months ago, the new coronavirus was unknown. But to some of our immune cells, the virus was already something of a familiar foe.A flurry of recent studies has revealed that a large proportion of the population -- 20% to 50% of people in some places -- might harbor immunity assassins called T cells that recognize the new coronavirus despite having never encountered it before.These T cells,...

Nature is returning to craters left from lakes drained by two dams that failed in May during torrential rain in mid-Michigan. “Shortly after the water receded, you could look out over the exposed bottom lands of the lake and it was like looking at the Sahara Desert,” said Dave Rothman, a board member with the Four Lakes Task Force, which is looking to obtain the four dams as well as the two...

An innovative process by a California company that adds recycled plastic to asphalt may be a "game-changer'' for the future of road...

A new study that monitored the subtle movements of huge ripples of sand on the Martian surface suggests that Mars may actually be windier than researchers...

New research says that the lockdown, by itself, will make little difference to climate...

After weeks of delay, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sent up 57 more satellites for its Starlink broadband internet constellation, with two BlackSky planet-watching satellites hitching a ride. The launch was originally scheduled for June, but had to be put off several times due to technical concerns, weather delays and range schedule conflicts. This time around, the countdown proceeded smoothly to...

UK peatland emissions could cancel out all carbon reductions from new and existing...

A uterus transplant gave Michelle many firsts in the past four years. Her first period, her first pregnancy and her first...

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The Trojans are time capsules from when the solar system...

The first checklist of plants found on the tropical island of New Guinea reveals incredible plant...

Fifteen beaver families have been given a permanent home on the River Otter in East...

Turning wild spaces into farmland or cities creates opportunities for diseases to cross into...