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About 40% of cats play fetch with their owners, but it's not clear why.

A helium reservoir with the highest concentrations ever seen could hold enough of the gas to address critical shortages in the U.S. affecting tech, medicine and space exploration.

The mapping of 50,000 mysterious "knots" in the human genome may someday lead to the development of new cancer drugs, researchers say.

Archaeologists remain uncertain about the purpose of these head cones, but it appears that ancient Egyptians associated them with "sensuality, sexuality and related notions."

The fort would have contained multiple buildings and was built sometime between the first and third centuries.

For the first time, researchers have linked the amount of silver being buried in marine sediments to human-made climate change.

Kamikaze termites in French Guiana carry highly volatile toxic "rucksacks" that are ready to be deployed in an instant, when the termite needs to defend its colony.

The average number of visible dark patches on the sun's surface in August was higher than any other month since September 2001. The final count was also more than twice as high as experts initially predicted it would be, demonstrating once again that the current solar maximum will be much…

IQM's quantum processor achieved 99.9% fidelity in recent tests, the company says. Here's what that actually means.