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The Yunxian 2 skull was squashed, but has now been reconstructed and appears to be an early...

Prey animals can use their colors to hide from predators or dissuade them from attacking. But local...

A roughly 1-million-year-old Chinese hominid skull has long vexed efforts to nail down its evolutionary identity. Fossil...

“Solar panels today will eventually reach the end of their life and need recycling or disposing of”...

Pipes made from PVC plastic could be improved by adding nanoparticles valentyn semenov/Alamy A sprinkling of nanoparticles...

Chenyang (Leo) Lin grew up in a coastal city in southern China, far from any woods. So,...

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“Refuting the idea of rigid personality types could make us all happier” Simone Rotella There is a...

One of the cheetah mummies inside the cave it was found in Ahmed Boug et al. 2025/National...

With emissions still rising, how do we feel hope for the future? Qilai Shen/Bloomberg via Getty Images...