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If we put Earth and Venus side by side, the family resemblance is unusually close. Venus has about 95 percent of Earth’s diameter, 81.5 percent of its mass, and about 90 percent of Earth’s surface gravity. A 75-kilogram person on Earth would press down on the ground with about the same force as a 68-kilogram … Read more

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Adding huge amounts of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere will cause Earth’s forests to wither and die rather than flourish, according to a new study that contradicts erroneous claims that fossil fuel pollution will green the planet. An analysis of fossilized leaf cells from a period known as the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (or PETM), which … Read more

A faint ribbon of stars in a distant galaxy has led astronomers to a discovery that could reveal secrets about one of the biggest mysteries in our universe. Hidden within archival data from the Hubble Space Telescope, researchers found the barely visible trail of stars: the first stellar stream from a globular cluster detected outside … Read more

Parents who ran pushing a stroller were less likely to suffer overuse injuries than those who ran without a stroller, according to new research published in the journal PLOS One. The study, which looked at self-reported mileage and injuries, found that for every 1,000 miles parents ran, those who ran with strollers had a 55 … Read more

Over the past 100 million years, crocodiles and their close relatives (including alligators, alligators, and gharials) have survived dramatic changes in climate and habitat. They have even suffered mass extinctions, including the event that wiped out the dinosaurs 66 million years ago. Yet despite all this, their brains have changed very little, according to new … Read more

It’s time to vote for the invertebrate of the year 2026. For the third year in a row, we have profiled some of the most spectacular, fascinating and yet overlooked inhabitants of our planet; the huge category of animals (more than 1.3 million different species) that do not have a backbone. This group includes all … Read more

Researchers were stunned when they discovered a new “demon cave fish” in a well-studied cave beneath a US Army post in Alabama. Scientists at the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) discovered a new genus of cavefish that is eyeless, colorless and slightly electric blue in life, according to a UAH news release from July. … Read more

The vast majority of mammals alive today (including us) give birth to live young, but this reproductive mode is neither unique to mammals nor universal among them. In fact, it evolved independently many times in other vertebrate groups, and some mammal species even lay eggs. For years, scientists believed that cynodonts (a major group of … Read more