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Powerful storms on the Orkney Islands in the far north of Scotland recently exposed ancient human bones in a Pictish and Viking cemetery dating to almost 1,500 years ago. Volunteers are piling sandbags and clay to protect the remains and limit the damage to the ancient Newark Bay cemetery on Orkney's largest island. 

Concerns about coronavirus have prompted Nepalese authorities to close access to Mt. Everest, according to reports.

Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually impact 1.2 billion people by 2100, according to a shocking new study.

NASA released a gorgeous image of the March supermoon behind the U.S. Capitol building this week.

A truly bizarre species of bug with unique sex organs and spiky horns was recently named after pop superstar Lady Gaga.

Bears worldwide are coming out of hibernation a month or more ahead of schedule -- and scientists are blaming one of the hottest winters on record.

A 19th-century railway turntable, which is believed to be the world’s oldest, has been discovered in Birmingham, England.

In 2018, NASA announced that its Curiosity rover had discovered organic molecules on Mars. A new study suggests that those molecules are "consistent with early life" on the Red Planet.

Dinosaurs ruled the Earth 65 million years ago, but they did so when a day was shorter than it is now, according to newly published research.

An international team of astronomers has discovered an exoplanet where it “rains iron.”

NASA provided an update on how the government agency is proceeding following the revelation that an employee tested positive for the novel coronavirus, and the disease COVID-19, earlier this month.

Experts have discovered a "dinosaur stomping ground" on the Isle of Skye off the northwest coast of Scotland.

Pregnancy can sometimes feel like it lasts forever, but for an Australian marsupial called a swamp wallaby (Wallabia bicolor), pregnancy truly never ends. 

Baboon mothers living in the wild have been observed carrying their dead infants for as long as 10 days, according to scientists.

The world's smallest dinosaur has been found, a two-inch bird-like creature that "looks like it just died yesterday."

A U.S. submarine that sank nearly 62 years ago has been found on the seabed off Oahu.

Coronavirus fears have prompted Chinese officials to close access to Mt. Everest from Tibet, according to climbers with knowledge of the matter.

Several new forms of chlamydia-related species have been discovered "deep below the Arctic Ocean," according to a new study.

A long-lost bunker World War II that belonged to "Churchill's secret army" has been discovered in Scotland.

Could we have already discovered dark matter?