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Hydrogen-powered cars may soon become more than just a novelty after a UNSW-led team of scientists demonstrated a much cheaper and sustainable way to...

Sound doesn't fossilize. Language doesn't either. Even when writing systems have developed, they've represented full-fledged and functional languages. Rather than preserving the first baby steps toward language,...

Water scarcity is a major problem across the world. "It affects every continent," says Amir Barati Farimani, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at...

An Indonesian cave painting that depicts a prehistoric hunting scene could be the world's oldest figurative artwork dating back nearly 44,000 years, a discovery...

Tropical glaciers in Africa and South America began their retreat simultaneously at the end of the last ice age about 20,000 years ago, according...

What could Azteca ants in coffee farms in Mexico have in common with leopards' spots and zebras' stripes? After two decades of analyzing the rise,...

New evidence gleaned from Antarctic seashells confirms that Earth was already unstable before the asteroid impact that wiped out the dinosaurs. The study, led by...

Supermassive black holes are the largest black holes, with masses that can exceed a billion Suns. Just this spring, the first-ever image of the...

Astronomers using the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) have spotted the light of a massive galaxy seen only 970 million years after the Big...

If you use a vacuum-insulated thermos to help keep your coffee hot, you may know it's a good insulator because heat energy has a...

A newly described fossil whale represents a new species and an important step in the evolution of whale locomotion, according to a University of...