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An unconventional alliance between scientists and those often considered to be looters has begun to shed light on a tribe’s history and a 17-century war in Connecticut.

Japan’s Akatsuki spacecraft detected what scientists called a gravity wave above the solar system’s second planet, but it hasn’t been seen since.

The return to business for Elon Musk’s company was successful, despite being overshadowed by questions about the viability of his long-range plans.

After analyzing more than 1,500 hyolith fossils, researchers concluded they are most closely related to present-day brachiopods, not mollusks.

The genome is divided into thousands of “neighborhoods,” or TADs, scientists are finding. Fracturing these partitions can have deadly consequences.

Gene editing, which does not add genes from other organisms into plants, is done with new tools that snip and tweak DNA at precise locations.

An evolutionary riddle suggests plants should give bats a sugar-heavy jolt, but a new study finds why the bats drink watery nectar in higher volumes.

Surprisingly indirect migratory paths land birds at way stations just as vegetation and insects become abundant. But climate change threatens to disrupt these journeys.

The short bursts of radio waves, though, don’t appear to be communications from an alien civilization.

The renewable energy transition is well underway and will not be easily reversed. But the new president can still set back efforts to slow climate change.