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Learn how one-celled organisms, or single-celled organisms, helped build complex life.

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Discover the mysterious world beneath Antarctica’s thick ice sheet, mapped in unprecedented detail.

Learn how CT scans of fossil skulls were used to trace changes in brain regions and sensory priorities in ancient giant rats.

Discover more about the egg-laying monotremes of Oceania and the ancient traits they still carry.

In space, bacteriophages mutate in ways not seen on Earth, making them more effective at killing drug-resistant bacteria.

Learn how mapping the Ring Nebula’s light revealed a massive iron bar hidden for decades.

Learn how seven naturally preserved cheetahs discovered in northern Saudi Arabia reveal that the Arabian Peninsula once ...

Learn about the movement of tectonic plates off the coast of northern California, a process that could incite major ...

Learn how a new research roadmap could turn debates about consciousness into testable experiments.