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E vidence has been found for a mantle plume beneath Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula. Unlike all the confirmed mantle plumes ...
One-hundred-million-year-old marks discovered in patches across Colorado’s Dinosaur Ridge appear to set the stage for what ...
Genetic ancestry, then, can be an important factor in your overall health picture – what your “normal” is, which illnesses ...
A near-complete skull of a Denisovan, one of the closest extinct relatives of modern humans, has never been recovered – or so ...
The breakthrough double injection won’t be cheap in the US, although scientists argue it could (and should) be.
T he Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, is producing more toxic hydrogen sulfide gas than previously thought, according ...
C onstantly offloading cognitive tasks onto artificial intelligence (AI) may come at a cost to your brain. According to a new ...
“We found that sharks follow what’s known as the ‘two-thirds scaling law’ almost perfectly,” explained Joel Gayford, a PhD ...
The question is not only how people survived there, but why, with potentially important answers for understanding ancient ...
On the 50th anniversary of the iconic movie, IFLScience chats with activist Wendy Benchley (wife of Jaws author Peter Benchley) and marine scientist Dr Lydia Koehler to discuss the film’s impact, ...
I n late 2026, a human-made object will reach a full light-day away from the Earth for the first time in human history.
In the latest shutdown, the cosmic ray subsystem experiment on Voyager 1 and Voyager 2’s low-energy charged particle instruments were taken offline in March. One especially power-hungry instrument – ...