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A massive Maya landscape has been hiding under a forested area of southern Mexico. The newfound city, dubbed Valeriana, spans…

Potatoes are the third-most consumed food worldwide and a delicious snack. But modern farm potatoes require large amounts of nitrogen…

Vampire bats have become such specialized bloodsuckers that they metabolize their food more like some blood-feeding flies than like other…

Airplane plumage might be the next big thing in aviation. Bird wings are contoured with overlapping rows of feathery tufts,…

The notion of a midlife crisis is dead. Or maybe it was always bunk. Now some scientists want a postmortem…

If you want to have a dream where you know you’re dreaming, you might be in luck. A phone app…

Some 6,500 light-years from Earth lurks a zombie star cloaked in long tendrils of hot sulfur. Nobody knows how those…

Icy moves Stonehenge’s central stone, known as the Altar Stone, may have had Scottish and not Welsh origins, researchers say.…

A well-timed smile could be the ultimate speed-dating hack. Smiles enhanced by artificial intelligence during video chats led to higher…

At least one pig has picked up bird flu amid an outbreak in poultry on a backyard farm in central…

Jupiter’s new moon — Science News, November 2, 1974 Jupiter’s tentatively identified 13th moon, discovered in September by California Institute…

The first-ever sighting of starlight from a galaxy hosting one of the most distant quasars known has revealed an astronomical…