Japan says lunar lander achieved major goals despite battery woes
Japan's SLIM lunar lander tipped over on touchdown, but still captured imagery of the moon while demonstrating high-precision landing technology.
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Prehistoric "chewing gum" reveals what was on the menu for Stone Age teens
Paleontologists were able to determine that the teenagers' diet included deer, trout, hazelnuts, apple, duck and fox.
Denmark's oldest writing found etched onto a small iron knife blade
Archaeologists say a single word inscribed on a 2,000-year-old knife blade is the earliest example of writing ever found in Denmark.
Doomsday clock time for 2024 remains at 90 seconds to midnight
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists unveiled its latest reading of the Doomsday clock on Tuesday morning, signaling how close humanity is to global catastrophe.
Ancient temple filled with gold and silver jewels discovered in Greece
Some parts of the temple dated back to the eighth century B.C., the Greek Ministry of Culture said.
Screaming cicadas are coming back in "once in a lifetime" event
This will be the first time since the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 that these broods of noisy, flying insects will emerge from underground.
Sea level rise could cost Europe billions in economic losses, study finds
Researchers found that sea level rise could cost the EU and U.K. nearly $950 billion by the end of this century.
Greenland's ice sheet melting faster than scientists previously estimated
Since 1985, Greenland's ice sheet has lost approximately 5,091 square kilometers of ice, researchers found using satellite imagery.
Meet Retro — the first rhesus monkey cloned using a new method
Scientists overcame years of failure with a new technique — but outside researchers warned the success rate was still very low and raised the usual ethical questions around cloning.
4 new species of deep-sea octopus discovered, researchers say
Four new species of octopus, one dubbed the dorado octopus, were found in the ocean off Costa Rica.
