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Scientists found worms living inside a glass sponge castle - and that's just one of 38 new species.

The Anopheles stephensi mosquito is a known vector for malaria. (Jim Gathany/CDC/public domain) Malaria killed about 610,000 people globally in 2024, with most deaths occurring in Africa, where young ...

A decades-old CIA intelligence document has gone viral and prompted a fresh debate about a potential cure for cancer.

Biochar is widely promoted as a climate friendly soil amendment that can store carbon and improve crop growth. Yet scientists have long debated whether it always benefits soil ecosystems. A new study ...

Production of this article included the use of AI. It was reviewed and edited by a team of content specialists. Imagine something alive today that was already ancient when woolly mammoths still roamed ...

Somewhere in the North Atlantic, more than a kilometer beneath its surface, a cold-water coral reef stretches across an ...

Two marsupials thought extinct for over 7,000 years were rediscovered in New Guinea through fossils, photos and citizen science.