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Toxic plant on Ming dynasty-era surgical tools may be world’s oldest chemical evidence of topical anesthetic

Ancient Ming Dynasty Surgical Tools Show Evidence of Toxic Anesthetic Use

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Toxic plant on Ming dynasty-era surgical tools may be world’s oldest chemical evidence of topical anesthetic

Rare genetic disease makes scientists reconsider what the 'seat of fear' in the brain really is

It's illegal to repair most of our devices. There's a surprising reason for that.

Bizarre patterns on Venus have scientists puzzled

The solar system's largest moon may be heating up — offering clues to its mysterious origins

Bead net funerary shroud: A 2,500-year-old beaded veil from Egypt depicting the deceased's transformation into Osiris

Scientists trained an AI model using an IBM quantum computer — and it answered questions correctly that the base model couldn't

Catapult the cow! 6 medieval castles that were never conquered

'We can identify these really early, before the clinical diagnosis': Epigenetic markers may help explain why Native Hawaiians are aging faster

China launches 'human artificial embryos' to space in bid to see whether reproduction is possible off-world

NASA spacecraft beams back blue images of Mars on its way to a metal asteroid — Space photo of the week

How did animals survive the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs?

AI-generated images are making it impossible to distinguish truth from fiction. We need laws and AI watermarks to protect our shared reality.

DNA sequencing is rewriting our understanding of historic outbreaks, but it can't tell the whole story

Science news this week: Laotian 'death jar', climate change threatens rice crops, and an asthma drug treats tough cancer

Levoit Sprout Evaporative Humidifier review: A great addition to nurseries and toddlers’ rooms

How hot is Earth's core?

Ebola outbreak in Central Africa will be a nightmare to contain, experts warn

Landmark finding that showed brains of kids with ADHD mature later was actually a mirage in the data, new research finds

Seal pups were dying from a 'corkscrew killer' on a Canadian island. It turned out to be cannibals.

Scientists claimed the world's oldest rock art is 67,800 years old. But is the science behind that estimate flawed?

Can AI really simulate human thinking? Research casts doubt on an influential study, suggesting an advanced model was just really good at memorizing patterns.

One of Neptune's 16 moons is not like the others, James Webb telescope finds — and it could be key to fully understanding the solar system

There's a new T. rex from the dinosaur age — and it ruled the seas with a skull-crushing bite

800-year-old 'hugging skeletons' are genetically confirmed as Poland's only medieval same-sex double burial

'I have no doubt that life is out there': Why radio astronomers are convinced alien contact is only a matter of time

China's real-life 'transformer' mech is a giant humanoid robot that can switch from bounding on 4 legs to walking on 2

Great Pyramid of Giza is remarkably resilient to earthquakes —‬ and it's due to the ancient Egyptians' 'extraordinary' engineering knowledge

How can we prevent AI models from cannibalizing themselves when human-generated data runs out? Scientists say they've found the answer.

Complex animals evolved up to 10 million years earlier than previously thought, fossil discovery shows

Scurvy-plagued whalers' remains discovered at 'Corpse Point' in Svalbard

Common asthma drug helps fight hard-to-treat cancers, including aggressive breast cancers, early study finds

Physicists confirm 'negative time' is real by asking the atoms themselves

The Appalachian Mountains hold enough lithium to make 500 billion cellphones, researchers discover

Celestron AstroMaster LT 70AZ review

800-year-old notebook and fancy silk toilet paper discovered in medieval latrine in Germany

Diagnostic dilemma: Biopsy triggered 'spontaneous regression' of woman's arm tumor

More young people are getting colorectal cancer — here's what scientists think might be happening

'The system is likely to reach a breaking point': Major Italian volcano is speeding toward a transition, and a major eruption could be on the way

China installs world's largest floating wind turbine in deep water test — it generates enough energy to power 4,200 homes annually